whole to part relation

1. 1.

   the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts

   Synonymsholonymy

   Broadersemantic relation

Questions about whole to part relation

What does whole to part relation mean?

whole to part relation means "the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts".

What is another word for whole to part relation?

Close synonyms include holonymy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whole to part relation a common word?

whole to part relation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.