Germane vs Relation - What's the difference?
germane | relation |
Related to the topic being discussed or considered.
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(inorganic chemistry) germanium tetrahydride, GeH4
(organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any organic derivative of this compound.
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.
As nouns the difference between germane and relation
is that germane is german, member of germanic tribe while relation is relation.germane
English
(wikipedia germane)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.}}
Book 1, Part 5.
- Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry: