Usually means: Release of tension, stress reduction.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. relaxation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relaxation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relaxation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relaxation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relaxation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Relaxation, relaxation: Wordnik
  7. relaxation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. relaxation: Wiktionary
  9. relaxation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. relaxation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. relaxation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. relaxation: Dictionary.com
  13. relaxation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Relaxation (NMR), Relaxation (approximation), Relaxation (disambiguation), Relaxation (iterative method), Relaxation (physics), Relaxation (psychology), Relaxation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Relaxation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. relaxation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. relaxation: Rhymezone
  18. Relaxation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. relaxation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. relaxation: Free Dictionary
  21. relaxation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. relaxation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relaxation: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. relaxation: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Relaxation (NMR): Encyclopedia
  3. relaxation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. relaxation: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. relaxation: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  4. Relaxation: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relaxation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RELAXATION: Glossary on Terminology related to Nuts and Bolts

(Note: See relaxationing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
noun:  A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.
noun:  Remission or abatement of rigor.
noun:  Remission of attention or application.
noun:  Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
noun:  (physics) The transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one; the opposite of excitation
noun:  (music) The release following musical tension.

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