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I like Joel's answer better than mine, but I would like to point out that one can sensibly interchange "$L$-valued relation" and "relation in the category of $L$-valued sets". If it's clear that I'm talking about the category of $L$-valued sets, I'm going to say "let $R\rightarrow A\times B$ be a relation", not "let $R$ be an $L$-valued relation".