What is the meaning of relation?

noun

• An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together.
• 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.
  • synonyms: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, carnal knowledge
• A person related by blood or marriage.
  • usage: "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
  • synonyms: relative
• An act of narration.
  • usage: "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
  • synonyms: telling, recounting
• 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"
  • synonyms: relation back
• Usually plural. ( mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups)
  • usage: "international relations"