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Relation vs Abduction - What's the difference?

relation | abduction |

As nouns the difference between relation and abduction

is that relation is relation while abduction is leading away; a carrying away .

relation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The manner in which two things may be associated.
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations . It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • A member of one's family.
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  • The act of relating a story.
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  • A set of ordered tuples.
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  • *:Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation' between sign, object, and sign user is called the ''sign '''relation''''' or '''''relation of denotation .
  • (lb) Specifically , a set of ordered pairs.
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  • (lb) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
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  • (lb) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
  • The act of intercourse.
  • Synonyms

    * (way in which two things may be associated) connection, link, relationship * (sense, member of one's family) relative * (act of relating a story) recounting, telling * correspondence * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (set theory) function

    Derived terms

    * blood relation * close relation * direct relation * distant relation * equivalence relation * friends and relations * indirect relation * inverse relation * shirttail relation * relations * relationship

    Anagrams

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    abduction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Leading away; a carrying away.
  • (physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)
  • (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
  • * 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:
  • The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
  • The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
  • the abduction of a child

    Usage notes

    * In Gregg shorthand (version: ) the word is represented: a - b - d - u - k - sh

    Synonyms

    * (sense) kidnapping * (logic) retroduction * (determining most plausible explanation) retroduction

    Antonyms

    * (physiology) adduction

    Derived terms

    * alien abduction

    References

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