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R0136000 (rĭ-lā′shən)n.1. A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection: the relation between smoking and heart disease.2. The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.3. A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.4. The way in which one person or thing is connected with another: the relation of parent to child.5. relationsa. The mutual dealings or connections of persons, groups, or nations in social, business, or diplomatic matters: international relations.b. Sexual intercourse.6. a. The act of telling or narrating.b. A narrative; an account.7. Mathematics A correspondence between two sets, consisting of a set of ordered pairs, the first element of each of which is from the first set, and the second element of each of which is from the second set. If A = {1,2} and B = {3,4}, then {(1,3), (1,4)} is a relation from A to B.8. Law The principle by which an action done on a certain date is treated as having been done on an earlier date. Also called relation back.Idiom: in relation to In reference to; in connection with: This letter from the bank is in relation to your mortgage.

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(rɪˈleɪʃən) n1. the state or condition of being related or the manner in which things are related2. connection by blood or marriage; kinship3. a person who is connected by blood or marriage; relative; kinsman4. reference or regard (esp in the phrase in or with relation to)5. the position, association, connection, or status of one person or thing with regard to another or others6. the act of relating or narrating7. an account or narrative8. (Law) law the principle by which an act done at one time is regarded in law as having been done antecedently9. (Law) law the statement of grounds of complaint made by a relator10. (Mathematics) logic maths a. an association between ordered pairs of objects, numbers, etc, such as … is greater than …b. the set of ordered pairs whose members have such an association11. (Philosophy) philosophy a. internal relation a relation that necessarily holds between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2b. external relation a relation that does not so hold[C14: from Latin relātiō a narration, a relation (between philosophical concepts)]

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n. 1. a significant association between or among things; connection: the relation between cause and effect. 2. relations, a. the various connections or dealings between peoples, countries, etc.: foreign relations. b. the various connections in which persons are brought together: business relations. c. sexual intercourse. 3. the mode or kind of connection between one person or thing and another. 4. connection between persons by blood or marriage; relationship. 5. a person who is related by blood or marriage; relative. 6. the act of relating or narrating. 7. Law. a principle whereby an act done at one time is presumed to have taken effect at a previous time. 8. Math. a. a property that associates two quantities in a definite order, as equality or inequality. b. a single- or multiple-valued function. Idioms: in or with relation to, with reference to; concerning. [1350–1400; Middle English relacion < Latin relātiō. See relate, -tion]

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relative">relative relationship">relationship

These words are used to refer to people or to connections between people.

1. 'relation' and 'relative'

Your relations or relatives are the members of your family.

I said that I was a relation of her first husband.I'm going to visit some relatives.

The relations between people or groups are the contacts between them and the way they behave towards each other.

Relations between the two men had not improved.Britain has close relations with the US.2. 'relationship'

You can talk in a similar way about the relationship between two people or groups.

The old relationship between the friends was quickly re-established.Senor Zapatero has shown that he is keen to have a close relationship with Britain.

A relationship is also a close friendship between two people, especially one involving sexual or romantic feelings.

When the relationship ended two months ago, he was very upset.

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Noun	1.	relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts togetherabstract entity, abstraction - a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examplespossession - anything owned or possessedsocial relation - a relation between living organisms (especially between people)spatial relation, position - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to otherscausality - the relation between causes and effectshuman relationship, relationship - a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children"function - a relation such that one thing is dependent on another; "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand"association - a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite"logical relation - a relation between propositionsmathematical relation - a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality)foundation - the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"connection, connexion, connectedness - a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare"unconnectedness - the lack of a connection between thingslinguistic relation - a relation between linguistic forms or constituentscomponent part, part, portion, component, constituent - something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"kinship, affinity - a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"family relationship, kinship, relationship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoptionmagnitude relation, quantitative relation - a relation between magnitudescontrol - a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another; "measures for the control of disease"; "they instituted controls over drinking on campus"business relation - a relation between different business enterprisesreciprocality, reciprocity - a relation of mutual dependence or action or influenceinterrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationship - mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness; "interrelationships of animal structure and function"temporal relation - a relation involving timecomparison - relation based on similarities and differencesoppositeness, opposition - the relation between opposed entitieschange - a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event; "he attributed the change to their marriage"
	2.	relation - 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 occurcarnal knowledge, coition, coitus, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, copulation, intercourse, congresssex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat"defloration - the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)insemination - the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a femalehank panky - illicit sexual intercoursepenetration - the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a womancriminal congress, unlawful carnal knowledge - forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals
	3.	relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"relativeindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"kin group, kindred, kinship group, clan, kin, tribe - group of people related by blood or marriageancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root - someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)cousin, cousin-german, first cousin, full cousin - the child of your aunt or uncledescendant, descendent - a person considered as descended from some ancestor or racein-law, relative-in-law - a relative by marriageblood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib - one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with anotherkin, kinsperson, family - a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib - one related on the mother's sideagnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib - one related on the father's sidekinsman - a male relativekinswoman - a female relativekissing cousin, kissing kin - a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kissnext of kin - the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given personoffspring, progeny, issue - the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"second cousin - a child of a first cousinsib, sibling - a person's brother or sisterbetter half, married person, partner, spouse, mate - a person's partner in marriage
	4.	relation - an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"recounting, tellingrecital, yarn, narration - the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"
	5.	relation - (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 amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"relation backjudicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle - (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudencelaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
	6.	relation - (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"dealings, traffic - social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

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noun1. similarity, link, bearing, bond, application, comparison, tie-in, correlation, interdependence, pertinence, connection This theory bears no relation to reality.2. relative, kin, kinsman or kinswoman I call him Uncle though he's no relation.plural noun1. dealings, relationship, rapport, communications, meetings, terms, associations, affairs, contact, connections, interaction, intercourse, liaison The company has a track record of good employee relations.2. family, relatives, tribe, clan, kin, kindred, kinsmen, kinsfolk all my relations come from the placein relation to concerning, regarding, respecting, in connection with, with regard to, on the subject of, in respect of, with reference to, apropos He is the sixth person to be arrested in relation to the coup plot.

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noun1. A logical or natural association between two or more things:connection, correlation, interconnection, interdependence, interrelationship, link, linkage, relationship, tie-in.Informal: hookup.2. A person connected to another person by blood or marriage:kin, kinsman, kinswoman, relative.

Translations

关系关联事物之间的关系交往亲属关系

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(rəˈleit) verb1. to tell (a story etc). He related all that had happened to him.叙述2. (with to) to be about, concerned or connected with. Have you any information relating to the effect of penicillin on mice? 关于，有关 3. (with to) to behave towards. He finds it difficult to relate normally to his mother.相处reˈlated adjective1. belonging to the same family (as). I'm related to the Prime Minister; The Prime Minister and I are related.有亲戚关系的2. connected. other related topics.相关的reˈlation noun1. a person who belongs to the same family as oneself either by birth or because of marriage. uncles, aunts, cousins and other relations.亲属关系2. a relationship (between facts, events etc). （事物之间的）关系，关联 3. (in plural) contact and communications between people, countries etc. to establish friendly relations. 关系，交往 reˈlationship noun1. the friendship, contact, communications etc which exist between people. He finds it very difficult to form lasting relationships. （友谊）关系 2. the fact that, or the way in which, facts, events etc are connected. Is there any relationship between crime and poverty? 关联，联系 3. the state of being related by birth or because of marriage. 亲属关系relative (ˈrelətiv) noun a member of one's family; a relation. All his relatives attended the funeral.亲戚 adjective1. compared with something else, or with each other, or with a situation in the past etc. the relative speeds of a car and a train; She used to be rich but now lives in relative poverty.相对的2. (of a pronoun, adjective or clause) referring back to something previously mentioned. the girl who sang the song; the girl who sang the song.比较的relatively (ˈrelətivli) adverb when compared to someone or something else. He seems relatively happy now; This is a fairly unimportant problem, relatively speaking. 相对地，比较而言比较地

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1. Law the principle by which an act done at one time is regarded in law as having been done antecedently 2. Law the statement of grounds of complaint made by a relator 3. Logic Mathsa. an association between ordered pairs of objects, numbers, etc., such as … is greater than … b. the set of ordered pairs whose members have such an association 4. Philosophya. internal relation a relation that necessarily holds between its relata, as 4 is greater than 2 b. external relation a relation that does not so hold

Relation

a philosophical category that expresses the nature of the disposition of the elements of a particular system and their interdependence; an individual’s emotional-volitional attitude toward something, the expression of his position; and the mental comparison of different objects or aspects of a given object.

Dialectical materialism postulates that a relation has an objective and universal character. Only things, their properties, and relations that are interconnected and interrelated in infinitely many ways with other things and properties exist in the world. V. I. Lenin regarded as accurate Hegel’s idea that each concrete thing stands in various relations to all other things (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 29, p. 124). Relations form systems of varying degrees of complexity from suitable elements, and a given relation may be present in various things (internal relations) or between different things (external relations). An example is any law as a significant relation between things and phenomena. Conversely, a given thing can enter into infinitely diverse relations with other things, which characterizes the multiplicity of the properties of a given thing. Anything may be considered as the relationship among its constituent elements, and if the relationship changes the thing itself also changes. For example, a different arrangement of the same elements in the words kot (cat) and tok (current) changes the meaning of the words. At the same time, any relation characterizes precisely those things between which it exists. For example, the relation “less than” or “greater than” characterizes quantities; the relation “south of describes the position of something with respect to something else; and the relation “father” denotes kinship. Consequently, a relation may function as a property or attribute of things. In different relations a thing reveals different and even contradictory properties. The relations of objects and phenomena with respect to each other are infinitely diverse and include spatial, temporal, and causal relations, the relations between part and whole, and the relations between form and content and between the external and internal. Social relations constitute a special type of relation.

Scientific thinking reveals the essence of things and the lawlike regularities of their origin and development by identifying their relations with other things. Describing the elements of the dialectic, Lenin pointed out the necessity of investigating relations: “The entire totality of the manifold relations of this thing to others,” “the relations of each thing … are not only manifold, but general, universal. Each thing (phenomenon, process, …) is connected with every other; the endless process of the discovery of new sides, relations” (ibid., pp. 202–03). The growing role of systems-structural methods of investigation has made the category of relations increasingly important in modern science.

A. G. SPIRKIN

Relations in logic. In the meaningful statements of natural languages, a relation is usually expressed by a predicate that has more than one subject or one subject with complements. Depending on the number of subjects (and complements), they are called the terms, subjects, or elements of the given relation. A distinction is made between two-place (binary, two-term) relations (“a is less than b,” “the Oka is shorter than the Volga,” “the rails are parallel to each other”), three-place relations (ternary, three-term; “point A lies between B and C,” “2 plus 3 equals 5”), four-place relations (“the numbers x₁, y₁, x₂, and y₂ are proportional”), and n-place (n-ary, n-term) relations. These meaningful ideas are realized in the precise terminology of set theory (algebra) and mathematical logic. The first of these precise reformulations reflects the extensional aspect of the concept of relation, and the second reflects the intensional (meaningful, contensive).

In set-theoretic terminology, by a binary (n-ary) relation we mean a set of ordered pairs (respectively, ordered n-tuples) of the members of some set (the field of the given relation). If the ordered pair < x, y > belongs to some relation R, then it also is said that x stands in relation R to y [symbolically, R(xy) or xRy]. The set of the first elements of ordered pairs belonging to relation R is its domain of definition (departure), and the set of the second elements constitutes the range of values (arrival). Similar concepts also are introduced for multiplace relations. A relation consisting of the pairs < y, x > obtained by transposition of the members of a given relation R of the pairs < x, y > is said to be the inverse of R and is designated as R^-1. The range of values of one of these mutually inverse relations [the term is justified by the fact that (R^-1)-1 is always equal to R] serves as the domain of definition of the other, and the domain of definition serves as the range of values. Since relations are particular cases of sets, the operations of set theory, in particular the union, intersection, and complement of relations, are introduced for them in the usual manner. Let us consider certain properties and basic types of binary relations—the class of relations that is most important for application and theoretical constructions.

PROPERTIES OF BINARY RELATIONS. If for any x, xRx is true, then R is called reflexive; examples include the relation of the equality of numbers (every number is equal to itself) and the similitude of triangles. If for every x, xRx does not obtain (symbolically, ⌉ xRx), then R is said to be antireflexive, or irreflexive (for example, the relation of the perpendicularity of straight lines —no straight line is perpendicular to itself)- If for any x and y that are not equal to each other, one stands in relation R to the other, that is, if one of the three relations xRy, x = y, or yRx is satisfied, then R is said to be connected (for example, the relation x and y, yRx follows from xRy, then R is said to be symmetric (for example, the relation of equality = or the relation of inequality ≠). If for any x and y, x = y follows from xRy and xR^-1y (that is, if R and R^-1 are satisfied simultaneously only for equal terms), then R is called antisymmetric (for example, the relation ≤ or ≥ for any objects). If for any x and y, ⌉ xRy follows from xRy, then R is called asymmetric (such as the relation < or >, since no object is greater or smaller than itself). If for any x, y, and z, xRz follows from xRy and yRz, then R is said to be transitive (for example, the relations = or

TYPES OF RELATIONS. Many of the types of relations cited below have already been encountered in the examples given above. Combining the properties of reflexivity, symmetry, and transitiveness, we come to the most important type of relation —the relation of equality (identity, equivalence). It is not difficult to show that any such relation induces (defines) a partitioning of the set in which it is defined into nonintersecting classes, called equivalence classes: the elements connected by a given relation fall into a common class, whereas those that are not connected fall into different classes. Thus, elements that fall into a common class are in some sense indistinguishable, which determines the importance of this type of relation.

REFERENCES

Tarski, A. V vedenie v logiku i metodologiiu deduktivnykh nauk. Moscow, 1948. (Translated from English.)
Church, A. Vvedenie v matematicheskuiu logiku, vol. 1. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from English.)
Uemov, A. I. Veshchi, svoistva i otnosheniia. Moscow, 1963.
Shreider, Iu. A. Ravenstvo, skhodstvo, poriadok. Moscow, 1971.

IU. A. GASTEV

relation

[ri′lā·shən] (computer science) A two-dimensional table in which data are arranged in a relational data structure. (mathematics) A set of ordered pairs. Also known as correspondence.

relation

(mathematics)A subset of the product of two sets, R : Ax 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.

relation

(database)A table in a relational database.

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noun similarity

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noun a logical or natural association between two or more things

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noun a person connected to another person by blood or marriage

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noun an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

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noun the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman

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noun a person related by blood or marriage

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noun an act of narration

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noun (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time

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noun (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups

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