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