relation

Meaning

Noun

• The manner in which two things may be associated.
• A member of one's extended family; a relative.
• The act of relating a story.
• A set of ordered tuples.
• Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
• A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• A subobject of a product of objects.
• The act of intercourse.

Related

Similar words

• connection, link, relationship
• relative
• recounting, telling
• correspondence

Narrower meaning words

• function

Origin

• 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, from verb referō, from prefix re- + ferō.
• Morphologically relate + -ion