relation

Noun

• (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
  • international relations
    

• (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
    

• an act of narration
  • he was the hero according to his own relation
    
  • his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
    

• a person related by blood or marriage
  • police are searching for relatives of the deceased
    
  • he has distant relations back in New Jersey
    

• 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

• an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  relation back , telling , recounting , relative