relations

Noun

relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)

1. The manner in which two things may be associated.
   • The relation between diet and health is complex.

   Synonyms:

   connection, link, relationship

2. A member of one's extended family; a relative.
   • Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
3. (in plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
   • the foreign relations of the United States
4. The act of relating a story.
   • Your relation of the events is different from mine.

   Synonyms:

   recounting, tell

5. A set of ordered tuples.
   • […]Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person."...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 7, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 107
   1. A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
      • Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.

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