Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 26 compound words that contain relation. The most common are listed below. Open relation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- blood relationA person who is related through birth, as opposed to marriage or adoption.
- relation of productionsingular of relations of production
- sexual relationThe behavior of a sexual nature between one or more individuals.
- equivalence relationA binary relation that is reflexive, symmetric and transitive.
- binary relationA subset of the Cartesian product A×A (the set of ordered pairs (a, b) of elements of A, alternatively written as A²).
- poor relationSomething neglected or seen as inferior.
- false relationA type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic contradiction between two notes sounding simultaneously (or in close proximity), in two …
- thematic relationAny of various possible semantic relations between a verb and its arguments.
- recurrence relationan equation that recursively defines a sequence; each term of the sequence is defined as a function of the preceding terms.
- partial ordering relationA partial order.
- co-relationCorresponding relation.
- Clausius-Clapeyron relationA way of characterizing a discontinuous phase transition between two phases of matter of a single constituent. It gives the slope of the tangents to the "coexistence curve" that separates the two phases on a pressure-temperature diagram.
- Plücker relationAny of a group of simple quadratic relations that are satisfied by the Plücker embedding.
- guest relation officerAn employee of a hotel who meets arriving guests and escorts them to their rooms.
- guest relation officersplural of guest relation officer: An employee of a hotel who meets arriving guests and escorts them to their rooms.
- total ordering relationA total order.
- elbow relationA distant relation.
Compound words 26
- relationalRelating to relations.
- corelationThe dual of a relation.
- relationistA subscriber to relationism.
- unrelationLack or absence of relation
- grandrelationA member of one's family from whom one is separated by two generations.
- misrelationerroneous relation or narration
- disrelationThe condition or process of being separated; the severance of a relation.
- irrelationThe state of being irrelative or unrelated; a lack of connection or relation.
- metarelationA relationship (or similar interaction) between relationships
- nonrelationAbsence of relation between things.