Reflexive Relation - Examples

Examples

Examples of reflexive relations include:

  • "is equal to" (equality)
  • "is a subset of" (set inclusion)
  • "divides" (divisibility)
  • "is greater than or equal to"
  • "is less than or equal to"

Examples of irreflexive relations include:

  • "is not equal to"
  • "is coprime to"(for the integers>1, since 1 is coprime to itself)
  • "is a proper subset of"
  • "is greater than"
  • "is less than"


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