Relation

noun

rɪ'leɪʃən

Noun

(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”
a person related by blood or marriage
“he has distant relations back in New Jersey”
Similar:Relative
Type of:SomebodyIndividualPerson
an act of narration
“he was the hero according to his own relation”
Similar:RecountingTelling
Type of:YarnNarrationRecital
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
“international relations”
Type of:TrafficDealings
sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Similar:CoitionCoitusCopulationIntercourse
Type of:Sex
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
Type of:Abstraction