Relation vs. Mapping

Relationnoun

The manner in which two things may be associated.

Relationnoun

A member of one's family.

Relationnoun

The act of relating a story.

Relationnoun

(set theory) A set of ordered tuples.

Relationnoun

(set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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.

Relationnoun

Reference; respect; regard.

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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.

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

a person related by blood or marriage;

Relationnoun

an act of narration;

Relationnoun

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

Relationnoun

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

Mappingnoun

The process of making maps.

Mappingnoun

(biology) The process of locating genes on a chromosome.

Mappingnoun

(computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.

Mappingnoun

(mathematics) A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.

Mappingnoun

(object-oriented programming) conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.

Mappingnoun

A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set.

Mappingnoun

a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set

Mappingnoun

(genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome