relationship, human relationship (noun)

a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)

"the relationship between mothers and their children"

relationship (noun)

a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)

"he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"

relationship (noun)

a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

kinship, family relationship, relationship (noun)

(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

relationship (Noun)

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

relationship (Noun)

Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

relationship (Noun)

A romantic or sexual involvement.

relationship (Noun)

The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Relationship

An archaeological relationship is the position in space and by implication, in time, of an object or context with respect to another. This is determined, not by linear measurement but by determining the sequence of their deposition - which arrived before the other. The key to this is stratigraphy.