Relation in a sentence

A relvar is a named variable of some specific relation type, to which at all times some relation of that type is assigned, though the relation may contain zero tuples.

In this way, the elements of the picture (the toy cars) are in spatial relation to one another, and this relation itself pictures the spatial relation between the real cars in the automobile accident.

He told the jury that they were “at sea” in relation to the evidence of the granddaughter as there were no care records in relation to her but that they should look “long and hard” at this evidence.

Johnson has also been charged with possession of an offensive weapon in relation to bleach, and the 15-year-old and 17-year-old have each been charged with possession of a bladed article in relation to machetes.

The only words uttered by the Government in relation to UK aerospace during this entire crisis came out of the blue today in relation to the prime minister's UK-made 'Jet Zero' project.

This was in relation to Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg’s recent cryptic statement saying that Sarawak is now at Maghrib time in relation to when the next state election will be called.

The relation between home-based involvement and achievement was not significant, and it was weaker than the relation between other types of involvement and achievement.

On Tuesday he was convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey of two counts of possessing an explosive substance in relation to his activities in Afghanistan and one count of preparing terrorist acts in relation to his plans in Westminster.

A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either.

Because a preorder is a binary relation, the symbol ≤ can be used as the notational device for the relation.

Configurations and the yields relation on configurations, which describes the possible actions of the Turing machine given any possible contents of the tape, are as for standard Turing machines, except that the yields relation is no longer single-valued.

Costs are classified according to their behavior in relation to change in relation to production volume within given period of time.

Definition A given binary relation ~ on a set X is said to be an equivalence relation if and only if it is reflexive, symmetric and transitive.

Each relation in the network is an expression of a fact that is classified by a relation type.

Every congruence relation has a corresponding quotient structure, whose elements are the equivalence classes (or congruence classes) for the relation.

Federal Law No. 40-FZ "On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)" dated 25 February 1999 (as amended) (the "Insolvency Law of Credit Institutions") contains special provisions in relation to the opening of insolvency proceedings in relation to the credit company.

For example, restricting the relation "x is parent of y" to females yields the relation "x is mother of the woman y"; its transitive closure doesn't relate a woman with her paternal grandmother.

For example "This 'a' is 'b'" (e.g. "This 'object a' is 'red'") really means "'object a' is a sense-datum" and "'red' is a sense-datum", and they "stand in relation" to one another and in relation to "I".

Furthermore, is an equivalence relation because equality is an equivalence relation on outcome classes.

In the first place the mark is not anthropological; it is prelinguistic; it is the possibility of language, and it is every where there is a relation to another thing or relation to an other.