Found 4 items, similar to Relation.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: relation hubungan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: relation hubungan, persangkutan, sangkutan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: relation relation n 1: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together 2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse , intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation , carnal knowledge] 3: a person related by blood or marriage; “police are searching for relatives of the deceased”; “he has distant relations back in New Jersey” [syn: relative] 4: an act of narration; “he was the hero according to his own relation”; “his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable” [syn: telling, recounting] 5: (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 ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed” [syn: relation back] 6: (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; “international relations”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Relation Relation \Re*la"tion\ (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio. See Relate.] 1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. [1913 Webster] ??????oet's relation doth well figure them. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. [1913 Webster] Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 3. Reference; respect; regard. [1913 Webster] I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. [1913 Webster] Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. [1913 Webster] For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. (b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. --Wharton. Burrill. [1913 Webster] Syn: Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman. [1913 Webster]