Definitions
1.nounThe manner in which two things may be associated."The relation between diet and health is complex."
2.nounA member of one's family."Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one."
3.nounThe act of relating a story."Your relation of the events is different from mine."
4.nounA set of ordered tuples.
5.nounSpecifically, a set of ordered pairs."Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not."
6.nounA set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table."This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key."
7.nounA statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
8.nounA subobject of a product of objects.
9.noun(usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.