Synonym: ease, easiness, liberalisation, liberalization, loosening, relaxation behavior, relaxation method, repose, rest, slackening. Similar words: relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, foreign relations, vexation, subluxation, relax. Meaning: [‚rɪːlæk'seɪʃn] 
n. 1. (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers 2. (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance 3. a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry 4. an occurrence of control or strength weakening 5. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) 6. a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount 7. the act of making less strict.
n. 1. (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers 2. (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance 3. a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry 4. an occurrence of control or strength weakening 5. freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) 6. a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount 7. the act of making less strict. 
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(121) These developments occurred against the background of a temporary relaxation of international competition.
(122) They lay side by side, doing their relaxation exercises - deep breathing and total muscular relaxation from the feet up.
(123) This should include establishing a regular pattern of breathing which will, of course, make that relaxation even deeper.
(124) If not, there are simple relaxation routines which you can follow for yourself and fit into your daily routine.
(125) For the ultimate in relaxation, few treatments can beat the experience of a flotation tank.
(126) The physical sessions included warming-up, periods pedalling on an exercise cycle, free-standing exercises, stretching and relaxation.
(127) Though he was fully capable of relaxation, what marked him most was a restless irritability.
(128) And indeed,[http://sentencedict.com/relaxation.html] this level of hypnosis lies somewhere between the state of deep relaxation and light meditation.
(129) The Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and intelligence services were resolute in their opposition to relaxation of the security rules.
(130) Daily relaxation exercIses will enhance the benefit of the time allotted for a massage and contribute to the long-term benefits.
(131) Don't be put off if relaxation doesn't seem to work immediately for you.
(132) Your choice of peaceful music to harmonize your inner state of relaxation.
(133) In some exceptional cases, a relaxation of green belt restrictions may be justifiable to allow such extensions.
(134) Inclusion of corrections for relaxation effects improves the accuracy of its predictions.
(135) The best time to practice relaxation is when you are feeling most under stress but often this is not convenient.
(136) A follow-up study that looks at the long-term effects of transcendental meditation and muscle relaxation is expected to be completed in August.
(137) Warmth, low gravity and the security of being held creates a feeling of release and overall relaxation.
(138) Fourteen years after the first Berlin crisis the world seemed no nearer to a relaxation in Cold War tensions.
(139) Do something with your hands, tapestry work or knitting, change your daily routine or try relaxation exercises.
(140) The biographer says nothing of a king's other chief relaxation, the evening carouse.
(141) If credit rationing has been in force, then a relaxation of controls will increase borrowing and spending.
(142) For some parents, visualization, meditation, and relaxation breathing techniques help; other people prefer physical activity to reduce stress.
(143) The situation was too fluid, the future too uncertain for any relaxation yet.
(144) This approach, although still somewhat restrictive has led to reasonable predictions of relaxation and retardation spectra.
(145) Relaxation of the small company audit requirement has been Institute policy since the debate resumed in 1985.
(146) Modern routine clinical practice however offers something of a dilution of the original Jacobsonian relaxation techniques.
(147) Pressure of time, leaving no space for relaxation and contemplation.
(148) He listened to relaxation tapes and practiced breathing exercises to stop hyperventilating.
(149) Plan your periods of relaxation; relax in spare moments before you get tired.
(150) Only viable mononuclear cells and granulocytes caused muscle relaxation, suggesting that the relaxing factor is not stored by these cells.
More similar words: relation, correlation, relationship, in relation to, foreign relations, vexation, subluxation, relax, relaxed, elation, revelation, elaboration, relegation, relative, relatively, correlative, proportional representation, ratification, gratification, acclimatization, ration, nation, station, oration, ovation, ablation, zonation, equation, location, negation.