<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.</li><li>Synonyms: link, tie, relationship.</li><li>Antonyms: independence.</li><li>relations, the various connections between peoples, countries, etc.: foreign relations.</li><li>the various connections in which persons are brought together: business and social relations.</li><li>sexual intercourse.</li><li>the mode or kind of connection between one person and another, between an individual and God, etc.</li><li>connection between persons by blood or marriage.</li><li>Synonyms: kinship, relationship.</li><li>a person who is related by blood or marriage; relative: his wife's relations.</li><li>the act of relating, narrating, or telling; narration.</li><li>Synonyms: description, recital, recitation.</li><li>Law: a principle whereby effect is given to an act done at one time as if it had been done at a previous time.</li><li>Mathematics: a property that associates two quantities in a definite order, as equality or inequality.</li><li>a single- or multiple-valued function.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>