relations

1. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groupsSynonyms: dealings, relations

2. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts togetherSynonyms: relation

3. 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 occurSynonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act

4. a person related by blood or marriageExamples: "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"Synonyms: relation, relative

5. an act of narrationExamples: "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"Synonyms: recounting, relation, telling

6. (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier timeExamples: "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"Synonyms: relation, relation back