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relation [n]

1)	an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

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2)	the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

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3)	a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

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relative

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4)	an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

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recounting telling

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narration narrate relate

5)	(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"

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relation_back

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judicial_doctrine jurisprudence

6)	(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"

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dealings plural interrelate relate

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. A subset of the product of two sets, R : A x B. If (a, b) is an element of R then we write a R b, meaning a is related to b by R. A relation may be: reflexive (a R a), symmetric (a R b => b R a), transitive (a R b & b R c => a R c), antisymmetric (a R b & b R a => a = b) or total (a R b or b R a).

See equivalence relation, partial ordering, pre-order, total ordering.

2. A table in a relational database.

(1995-02-28)

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