# Relation vs Formula - What's the difference?

relation | formula |

## As nouns the difference between relation and formula

is that relation is relation while formula is formula.

# 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

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# formula

## English

### Noun

(wikipedia formula)
• (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
• $x = \frac \left\{-b \pm \sqrt\left\{b^2 - 4ac\right\}\right\}\left\{2a\right\}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 .
• (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
• H2O is the formula for water (Dihydrogen monoxide)
• a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
• The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
• A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
• The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
• Drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
• (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
• #### Synonyms

* (in mathematics) mathematical formula * (in chemistry) chemical formula

#### Hyponyms

* (logic) sentence

#### Derived terms

* (l) * formulate * formulation * Formula One * formula racing * multiformula