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relationship

A relationship stores links to other object instances (not objects). A relationship property is special reference (local collection) that may or may not own the instances in the collection. Usually, instances in a relationship can be referenced from different locations (extents or other instances). In many cases, relationships are considered as bi-directional, i.e. they have got an inverse relationship in the referenced instance.

For relationships, a super set may be defined

Generalisations:  reference