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relational en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. 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:
  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.
    • relational art
  5. Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.

Forms

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more relational Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most relational Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

unrelational · irrelational

Deriveds

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

Translations (16)

pt relacional (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · tr ilişkisel (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · de relational (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · hu relációs (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · pl relacyjny (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · de relational (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · es relacional (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · pl relacyjny (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · ru реляцио́нный (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · ru ро́дственный (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · it relazionale (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · fr relationnel (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · pl pokrewny (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · bg роднински (concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected) · cs relační (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database) · el σχεσιακός (relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database)