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relational

/ɹiˈleɪʃənəl/

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What does relational mean?

adjective

  1. Relating to relations.
  2. Friendly and peaceful.
  3. Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
More meanings (2)

adjective

  1. Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
  2. Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɹiˈleɪʃənəl/

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And if we cannot prove this, we also cannot prove the unreality of space and time and matter and evil, for this is deduced by Hegel from the fragmentary and relational character of these things.
Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyProject Gutenberg ebook #5827
But, on the other hand, the testimony is concerned almost always with one or several physical events, so that a simple relational interrogation will establish certainly whether the witness knows and attends to the physical law in question or not.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320