Main entry: relation
Definition: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
Main entry: relation
Definition: (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
Usage: international relations
Main entry: intercourse, congress, copulation, coition, coitus, carnal knowledge, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, relation
Definition: 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
Main entry: relation, relation back
Definition: (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
Usage: his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed
Main entry: telling, recounting, relation
Definition: an act of narration
Usage: he was the hero according to his own relation; his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
Main entry: relation, relative
Definition: a person related by blood or marriage
Usage: police are searching for relatives of the deceased; he has distant relations back in New Jersey