Relation vs. Association — What's the Difference?

A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection

The act of associating or being connected with

The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.

An organized body of people who have an interest, activity, or purpose in common; a society.

A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.

A mental connection or relation between thoughts, feelings, ideas, or sensations

The way in which one person or thing is connected with another

The act of expressing a link or connection between two things

The mutual dealings or connections of persons, groups, or nations in social, business, or diplomatic matters

A correlation or causal connection

Sexual intercourse.

(Chemistry) Any of various processes of combination, such as hydration, solvation, or complex-ion formation, depending on relatively weak chemical bonding.

The act of telling or narrating.

(Ecology) A large number of organisms in a specific geographic area constituting a community with one or two dominant species.

A narrative; an account.

(uncountable) The act of associating.

(Mathematics) A correspondence between two sets, consisting of a set of ordered pairs, the first element of each of which is from the first set, and the second element of each of which is from the second set. If A = {1,2} and B = {3,4}, then {(1,3), (1,4)} is a relation from A to B.

(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

(Law) The principle by which an action done on a certain date is treated as having been done on an earlier date. Also called relation back.

(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

The manner in which two things may be associated.

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

A member of one's extended family; a relative.

(object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.

The act of relating a story.

A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.

(set theory) A set of ordered tuples.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

(set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

(databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

(mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

A formal organization of people or groups of people;

(category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.

The act of consorting with or joining with others;

(usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

The state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

A social or business relationship;

The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;

Reference; respect; regard.

A relation resulting from interaction or dependence;

Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

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 occur

A person related by blood or marriage;

An act of narration;

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time;

(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups;