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relation Definition

• (n) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• (n) 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
• (n) a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
• (n) an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
• (n) (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"
• (n) (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"

relation Synonyms

• carnal knowledge
• coition
• coitus
• congress
• copulation
• intercourse
• recounting
• relation
• relation back
• relative
• sex act
• sexual congress
• sexual intercourse
• sexual relation
• telling