Usually means: Connection between concepts or objects.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word relation:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. relation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. relation: Merriam-Webster
  3. relation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. relation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. relation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. relation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Relation, relation: Wordnik
  8. relation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. relation: Wiktionary
  10. relation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. relation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. relation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. relation: Dictionary.com
  14. relation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. relation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Relation (database), Relation (disambiguation), Relation (group theory), Relation (history of concept), Relation (journal), Relation (logic), Relation (math), Relation (mathematics), Relation (metaphysics), Relation (philosophy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. relation, relation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. relation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. relation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. relation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. relation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. relation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Relation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. Relation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. relation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. relation: Rhymezone

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. relation: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. relation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Relation: Database Glossary
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. relation: Encyclopedia
  5. relation: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  6. Relation: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. relation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. relation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relation: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Relation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. relation, relation, relation, relation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The manner in which two things may be associated.
noun:  A member of one's extended family; a relative.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
noun:  The act of relating a story.
noun:  (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
noun:  (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
noun:  (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
noun:  (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
noun:  (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
noun:  (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.

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