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Plural of relay

regular plural

The plural of relay is relays.

Forms of relay

Singularrelay /ˈɹiːleɪ/
Pluralrelays
Countablecountable

Relays in a sentence

  • I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.From the entry frig
  • Colonel Sun translates for Minister Yao and relays the minister’s reply.2010, John A. Harper, “Taiwan”, in Mobilize!: Reassembling Forces with the World in Chaos (Fiction), AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Kaosiung
  • NF relays wfll not miscontact through one million operations, and you can be 99% sure of it!1983, EDN. - Volume 28, page 24. From the entry miscontact
  • The lagometer has been designed by Siemens Bros. and Co. for measuring time constants of relays.1940, “The Lagometer”, in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 44, number 2, page 12. From the entry lagometer
  • Primary mass relays can propel ships thousands of light years, often from one spiral arm of the galaxy to another.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Relays Codex entry. From the entry propel

Meaning of relay

  1. noun A new set of hounds.
  2. noun A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
  3. noun A new set of anything.

Full definition of relay

Questions about the plural of relay

What is the plural of relay?
The plural of relay is relays.
Is relay countable?
Relay is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: relay (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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