n 1  :  an aspect or quality (as resemblance or causality) that connects two or more things or parts as being or belonging or working together, as being of the same kind, or as being logically connected <the evidence that there was a between the use of tobacco and lung cancer -Current Biog.>  <the of time and space>   2  :  the attitude or stance which two or more persons or groups assume toward one another <race s>   3 a  :  the state of being mutually or reciprocally interested (as in social matters)  b  relations  pl  :  SEXUAL INTERCOURSE <they admitted intercourse with the girl, and two doctors testified that s had occurred -Newsweek>  re*la*tion*al adj 
 
 
 
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