relation
英英释意
- 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
- 3. a person related by blood or marriage;
- "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"
- "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
- 4. an act of narration;
- "he was the hero according to his own relation"
- "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
- 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"
- 6. (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups;
- "international relations"