| relation |
| 1. n. The manner in which two things may be associated. | |
| The relation between diet and health is complex. | |
| 2. n. A member of one's family. | |
| Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one. | |
| 3. n. The act of relating a story. | |
| Your relation of the events is different from mine. | |
| 4. n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples. | |
| 5. n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs. | |
| Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not. | |
| 6. n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table. | |
| This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key. | |
| 7. n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group. | |
| 8. n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects. | |
| 9. n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse. | |
| proportion |
| 1. n. A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number. | |
| 2. n. Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole. | |
| 3. n. Proper or equal share. | |
| 4. n. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree. | |
| the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body | |
| 5. n. (mathematics) A statement of equality between two ratios. | |
| 6. n. (chiefly in the plural) Size. | |
| 7. v. (arts) To set or render in proportion. | |
| conformity |
| 1. n. The state of things being similar or identical. | |
| 2. n. A point of resemblance; a similarity. | |
| 3. n. The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard. | |
| Synonyms: compliance | |
| 4. n. The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity. | |
| correspondence |
| 1. n. Friendly discussion. | |
| 2. n. Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters. | |
| 3. n. An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome. | |
| 4. n. Newspaper or news stories, generally. | |
| 5. n. A postal or other written communication. | |
| 6. n. Postal or other written communications. | |
| 7. n. (set theory) A relation. | |
| 8. n. (theology) According to Swedenborg, a relationship of similarity between physical and spiritual things, such as that of light to wisdom, or warmth to love. | |
| accord |
| 1. n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. | |
| 2. n. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. | |
| 3. n. Agreement or harmony of things in general. | |
| the accord of light and shade in painting | |
| 4. n. (legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. | |
| 5. n. (international law) An international agreement. | |
| The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Assent | |
| 7. n. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. | |
| Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord. | |
| 8. v. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. | |
| 9. v. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone. | |
| 12. v. (transitive, legal) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement. | |
