relation
The manner in which two things may be associated.
Example
“The relation between diet and health is complex.”
Other meanings
A member of one's extended family; a relative.
“Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.”
A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
“the foreign relations of the United States”
Related words
- corelation
- disrelation
- grandrelation
- irrelation
- metarelation
- relationism
- relationless
- relationscape
- steprelation
- unrelation
- interrelation
- misrelation
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "relātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “relation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.