## Meanings
1. To pass on a message or piece of information to someone else.
2. A race between teams in which each member runs or swims one part in turn.
3. An electrical device that uses a small current to switch a larger one on or off.

## Examples
- Please relay the news to the rest of the team.
- Our school won the 400-metre relay at the sports day.
- A faulty relay was stopping the motor from starting.

## Derived Forms
- misrelay
- nanorelay
- phosphorelay

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: relai
- Root: relaier

## Etymology
From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.

## AI Etymology
Relay comes from Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin. Modern senses include to pass on a message or piece of information to someone else. and a race between teams in which each member runs or swims one part in turn.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as misrelay, nanorelay, and phosphorelay.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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