an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together;
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations";
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;
(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";
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";
