Definitions for "Relation"
A predefined row/column format for storing information in a relational database.
a collection of rows or tuples A tuple is a collection of columns or attributes A domain is a pool of values from which the actual attribute values are taken
an unordered set of tuples
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
a mutual exchange with reciprocal benefit and LaTeX
a mutual exchange with reciprocal benefit appropriate
The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
an explicit algebraic formula that allows a dimension to be automatically computed from other dimensions in the part
a predictable or prescribed sequence of numbers, objects, etc. Patterns and relationships may be described or presented using manipulatives, tables, graphics (pictures or drawings), or algebraic rules (functions). Also called a Pattern.
A relation between the positions of two dimensions is a good way to make on-the-fly calculations, and thus easily create formulas.
Keywords:  inter, subset, father, tuplee, concept
A subset of the cartesian product of two sets.
Any Set of ordered pairs.
a correspondence between two sets (called the domain and the range ) such that to each element of the domain, there is assigned one or more elements of the range
Keywords:  committment
a committment
Semantic relationships between compilation units (as discussed in chapter 10 of ISO/IEC 8652:1995). The Relation_Kinds type enumerates the kinds of relations that can exist between compilation units. See also Dependent, Extended Family, and Supporter.
various current uses, ranging from casual to ostentatious; rarely with any sustained effort at localization of the "named," as is shown by ever-recurrent discussions (and, what is worse, evasions) as to whether relation (assumed to have a certain existence somewhere as itself factual) is "internal" or "external." Suggested by us to name system among words, in correlation with reference and connection.
A symbol that signifies some quantitative relationship between two or more expressions. While the only relation discussed in this book is the equals sign (=), other examples are inequalities such as or .
The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
It is the bearing (reference, respect, attitude, ordination) of one thing to something else.
an association between things
Keywords:  begun, frrom, instance, fiction, schema
The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
A non-graphical relationship between one or more instances of one class, and one or more instances of another class. See also connection.
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
an abstraction over files, and Aldat is designed to support programming at this level of abstraction
an entity that connects two or more entities in a specific manner
Keywords:  'fait, accompli, progression
a progression rather than a 'fait accompli'
a bisimulation if it is closed under application of the destructor of a coalgebra
a grammatical category in visual language that shows a medial point of the interrelation that binds the Initial and Germinate states
Keywords:  patter, see
see Patter
An unordered flat collection class that uses keys, allows for duplicate elements, and has element equality. See key access, unordered collection.
a function if every element in the domain is related to exactly one element in the range
A definition of how elements cooperate to accomplish the work of a system.
(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"
Keywords:  krb, kdc, conf, configuration, variable
A configuration variable or relationship that is defined in the kdc.conf or krb5.conf files.
Keywords:  mbeans, ary, association, roles, item
An actual association of a particular kind between two items in the current KB. Contrast with relation definition.
a directed association from an item to another item
a user defined, n-ary association between MBeans in named roles
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
a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
an equality between two words in a fp-group
A relation is a fundamental unit of data that indicates that two documents are related somehow. Relations are given a type classification that refines that relationship and and indicates how the documents are related.
Any relationship to another dataset or file. Substitutions include "requires" and "replaces".
Keywords:  repetitive, interaction
a repetitive interaction (i
Keywords:  tie, actors, specific, network, type
a specific type of tie between actors in a network
an attribute that refers to an object instead of a value
an attribute which requires two or more substances for its existence, e
Keywords:  lamp
a like a lamp
An association between, or property of, two or more objects.
a type of association between managed objects
See Object Property.
Keywords:  regard, respect, reference
Reference; respect; regard.
Keywords:  pattern, see
see Pattern.
Keywords:  resource, reference
A reference to a related resource
Keywords:  edge, another, name, see
Another name for an edge. See Also Edge.