The difference between Link and Relation
When used as nouns, link means a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas, whereas relation means the manner in which two things may be associated.
Link is also verb with the meaning: to connect two or more things.
check bellow for the other definitions of Link and Relation
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Link as a noun:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Examples:
"The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
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Link as a noun:
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Examples:
"The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
"The weakest link."
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Link as a noun:
Examples:
"The link on the page points to the sports scores."
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Link as a noun (computing):
The connection between buses or systems.
Examples:
"A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
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Link as a noun (mathematics):
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
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Link as a noun (Sussex):
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Link as a noun (figurative):
an individual person or element in a
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Link as a noun:
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Examples:
"a link of horsehair"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Link as a noun:
A sausage that is not a patty.
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Link as a noun (kinematics):
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link as a noun (engineering):
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link as a noun (surveying):
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
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Link as a noun (chemistry):
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link as a noun (plural):
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To connect two or more things.
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Link as a verb (intransitive, of a Web page):
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Examples:
"My homepage links to my wife's."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Examples:
"Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To post a hyperlink to.
Examples:
"Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
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Link as a verb (compilation):
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Link as a noun (obsolete):
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Link as a verb (Scotland, intransitive):
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
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Relation as a noun:
The manner in which two things may be associated.
Examples:
"The relation between diet and health is complex."
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Relation as a noun:
A member of one's family.
Examples:
"Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one."
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Relation as a noun:
The act of relating a story.
Examples:
"Your relation of the events is different from mine."
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Relation as a noun (set theory):
A set of ordered tuples.
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Relation as a noun (set theory):
Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
Examples:
"Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not."
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Relation as a noun (databases):
A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
Examples:
"This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key."
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Relation as a noun (mathematics):
A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
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Relation as a noun (category theory):
A subobject of a product of objects.
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Relation as a noun (usually collocated: sexual relation):
The act of intercourse.