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# relations -- the defining relations

## Description

relations M -- produce the relations defining a module M.

The relations are represented as a matrix, and if not stored in the module under M.relations, the matrix is understood to be empty.

## See also

- generators -- provide matrix or list of generators
- subquotient -- make a subquotient module

## Ways to use relations:

- `relations(Module)`

## For the programmer

The object relations is a method function.

The source of this document is in /build/macaulay2-88fgJW/macaulay2-1.25.11+ds/M2/Macaulay2/packages/Macaulay2Doc/doc_module.m2:203:0.