Editing Relation

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'''Relation''' or '''relations''' may refer to:

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== General uses ==
* [[International relations]], the study of interconnection  of politics, economics, and law on a global level
* [[Interpersonal relationship]], association or acquaintance between two or more people
* [[Public relations]], managing the spread of information to the public
* Sexual relations, or [[human sexual activity]]
* [[Social relation]], in social science, any social interaction between two or more individuals

== Logic and philosophy ==
* [[Relation (philosophy)]], links between properties of an object
* [[Relational theory]], framework to understand reality or a physical system

== Mathematics ==
A [[finitary relation|finitary or ''n''-ary relation]] is a set of ''n''-tuples. Specific types of relations include:
* [[Relation (mathematics)]] (an elementary treatment of binary relations)
* [[Binary relation]] (or diadic relation – a more in-depth treatment of binary relations)
* [[Equivalence relation]]
* [[Homogeneous relation]]
* [[Reflexive relation]]
* [[Serial relation]]
* [[Ternary relation]] (or triadic, 3-adic, 3-ary relation)

Relation may also refer to:
* [[Directed relation]]
* [[Relation algebra]], an algebraic structure inspired by algebraic logic

== Databases and ontology ==
* [[Relational model]], an approach to managing data
** [[Relation (database)]], a component of a relational database
** [[Relational algebra]]
** [[Relational calculus]]
** [[Relational database]], a digital database
* Relationships (also known as relations), one of the [[ontology components#Relationships|ontology components]]

== Art and literature ==
* ''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien]]'', the first newspaper
* [[Relation (film)|''Relation'' (film)]], a 1982 Japanese experimental short film by [[Toshio Matsumoto]]
* [[Relations (album)|''Relations'' (album)]], a 2004 album of cover versions by Kathryn Williams

== Linguistics ==

* [[Grammatical relation]], a functional relationship between [[Constituent (linguistics)|constituents]] in a [[clause]].

== See also ==
* [[Relate (disambiguation)]]
* [[Relationism (disambiguation)]]
* [[Relationship (disambiguation)]]
** [[Kinship]], in anthropology and generally, the web of human social relationships, or an affinity between entities because of some characteristics
** [[Coefficient of relationship]] in biology
* [[Relative (disambiguation)]]
* [[Relativism]]
* [[Relativity (disambiguation)]]
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