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(noun) intercourse, congress, copulation, coition, coitus, carnal knowledge, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation
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
(noun) relation back
(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed
(noun) telling, recounting
an act of narration
he was the hero according to his own relation; his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
(noun) relative
a person related by blood or marriage
police are searching for relatives of the deceased; he has distant relations back in New Jersey