English Explanatory Dictionary

relational

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to relations.
  2. Friendly and peaceful.
  3. Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
  4. Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
  5. Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

relational more relational most relational

Etymology

From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.

Antonyms

irrelational unrelational

Derived words

interrelational metarelational multirelational nonrelational pseudorelational relational adjective relational antonym relational attribute relational community relational database relationalism relationality relationally relational model relationalness relational operator sociorelational
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