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relation (iou)



relation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin relatio(n-), formed as RELATE verb: see -ATION.]
The action of giving an account of something, narration, report; an instance of this, a narrative, an account. LME.
b. Law. An account of a complaint or claim made for the Attorney-General by a relator; the laying of an information (cf. INFORMATION 4b). M17.
The existence or effect of a connection, correspondence, or contrast between things; the particular way in which one thing stands in connection with another; any connection or association conceivable as naturally existing between things. LME.
E. J. Howard She seemed to bear no relation to the gawky..schoolgirl he'd dimly remembered. R. Scruton The relation of wealth to social and political well-being. Mind The most obvious relation which events can enter into is that of one event being later..than another.
b. Logic. A constituent of a proposition or propositional function that predicates a connection of two or more terms. L19.
a. The position which one person holds with another by means of social or other mutual connections; the connection of people by circumstances, feelings, etc. LME.
E. A. Freeman The relation of every man to his lord.
b. In pl. The social contacts or ways of contact by which a person is brought into and kept in touch with another. L17.
S. Butler No..close relations had been maintained between the sisters for some years. I. Murdoch My relations with women always followed a certain disastrous..pattern.
c. In pl. The various ways by which a country, State, etc., maintains political or economic contact with another. L18.
H. Kissinger US-Soviet relations were..in for a long chilly period.
d. euphem. In pl. Sexual intercourse, a sexual relationship. E20.
Law.
a. Treatment of a decision etc. as applying to a date earlier than that on which it was made; retrospective validity. Chiefly in have relation back. L15.
b. The regarding of two things, esp. times, as legally identical. L16-M18.
a. A person related to another by blood or marriage; a relative. Freq. in pl. E16.
L. M. Montgomery I've never had an aunt or any relation at all. A. Pryce-Jones To the distress of her relations, Aunt May became a Catholic.
b. Connection between people arising out of the ties of blood or marriage; kinship. M17.
S. Hayward The relation is as real as that of husband and wife.
Phrases: be no relation be unconnected by blood or marriage despite having the same surname. external relation Philosophy a connection between two things which is not intrinsic to the identity of the first thing. false relation: see FALSE adjective. have relation back: see sense 4a above. have relation to have reference or allusion to. HUMAN relations. INDUSTRIAL relations. in relation to as regards. internal relation Philosophy a connection between two things which is intrinsic to the identity of the first thing. labour relations: see LABOUR noun. make relation to make reference or allusion to. poor relation: see POOR adjective. public relations: see PUBLIC adjective & noun. with relation to = in relation to above.
relationary adjective relational M19.
relationless adjective having no relations; without relation: E19.