rel

See also: -rel, rel., and REL

Translingual

Symbol

rel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Rendille.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Rendille terms

English

Preposition

rel

1. (mathematics) Abbreviation of relative to.
   • 1994, N[ikita] Netsvetaev, “Diffeomorphism Criteria for Simply Connected Even-Dimensional Manifolds”, in Oleg Viro, editor, Topology of Manifolds and Varieties (Advances in Soviet Mathematics [series] 18), American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 237:

     Since $M_0$ and $M_1$ are cobordant rel boundary and $f_0,f_1$ are n-connected, the number $\delta :=\frac{1}{2}(\mathrm{r}\mathrm{k}{H}_n{M}_0-\mathrm{r}\mathrm{k}{H}_n{M}_1)$ is a nonnnegative integer.

   • 1997, Paul Selick, Introduction to Homotopy Theory (Fields Institute Monographs), American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 15:

     The following notations are in common use: $H:f\simeq g$ (rel A) means that H is a homotopy rel A from f to g....

   • 2002, Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology‎^[1], Cambridge, →ISBN, page 355:

     Then in $n\ge n^{\prime }$, there is a map $h:Z\to Z^{\prime }$ such that $h|A=g$ and $gf\simeq f^{\prime }h$ rel A, so the diagram above is commutative up to homotopy rel A.

Anagrams

• RLE, Ler

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈre̞l]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈrɛl]

Noun

rel f (plural rels)

1. alternative form of arrel

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

From rellen (“to talk”), western variant of rallen.

Noun

rel m (plural rellen, diminutive relletje n)

1. riot
2. scandal, outrage

Derived terms

• nozemrel
• rellen
• relnicht
• relschopper
• verkiezingsrel

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rel

1. inflection of rellen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch rail, from English rail, from Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regere (“to rule, to guide, to govern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛl]
• Hyphenation: rèl

Noun

rel (plural rel-rel)

1. rail: the metal bar that makes the track for a railroad
2. (figurative) rule

   Synonym: aturan

Compounds

• rel ganda
• rel gerigi
• rel geser
• rel gongsol
• rel ketiga
• rel lantak
• rel omega
• rel paksa
• rel sayap
• rel tunggal

Further reading

• “rel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Volapük

Noun

rel (genitive rela, plural rels)

1. religion

Declension

Declension of rel

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rel	rels
Genitive	rela	relas
Dative	rele	reles
Accusative	reli	relis
Predicative1	relu	relus
Vocative	o rel	o rels

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.