relational
adjEtymology From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
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Relating to relations.
- essays on relational rights
- Of these three great groups of feelings the first are extremely unrelational; the second are somewhat more relational; and the third are relational in a comparatively high degree.1873, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, volume 1, page 250:
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Friendly and peaceful.
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Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
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Art, Arts Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- relational art
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
- Derived terms
- interrelational, metarelational, multirelational, nonrelational, pseudorelational, relational adjective, relational antonym, relational attribute, relational community, relational database, relational grammar, relationalism, relationality, relationally, relational model, relationalness, relational operator, sociorelational