Relationships in Salesforce specify the connections between various records across various objects:
- Lookup Relationship: Two objects are able to reference one another.
 
- Master: A parent-child relationship in which one object directs the actions of another is known as a master-detail relationship.
 
- Many-to-Many Relationship: Junction objects are used to model complex relationships.
 
- External Lookup Relationship:  Salesforce objects are linked to external system objects through an external lookup relationship.
 
- Self-Relationship: An object has a self-relationship with itself.