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relation

noun
/ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/US/ɹəˈlæ̝ɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin relātiō, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relātus (“related”), from verb referō (“to refer, to relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear, to carry”). By surface analysis, relate + -ion. Doublet of relazione.

  1. derived from relātiō
  2. derived from relacion
  3. derived from relacioun
  4. inherited from relacion

Definitions

  1. The manner in which two things may be associated.

    • The relation between diet and health is complex.

  2. A member of one's extended family

    A member of one's extended family; a relative.

    • Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.

  3. A relationship

    A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.

    • the foreign relations of the United States
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. The act of relating a story.

      • Your relation of the events is different from mine.
      • I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon […] How I, Skelton laureat, Devysed and also wrate Uppon a lewde curate, […]

    2. A set of ordered tuples.

    3. A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.

      • This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.

    4. A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a…

      A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

    5. A subobject of a product of objects.

    6. The act of intercourse.

      • have relations with
      • have sexual relations with

The neighborhood

Derived

corelation, disrelation, grandrelation, interrelation, irrelation, metarelation, misrelation, nonrelation, relational, relationism, relationist, relationless, relationlike, relationscape, relationship, steprelation, unrelation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at relation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at relation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at relation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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