relational
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file) - Hyphenation: re‧la‧tio‧nal
Adjective
[edit]relational (comparative more relational, superlative most relational)
- Relating to relations.
- Antonyms: irrelational, unrelational
- essays on relational rights
- 1873, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, volume 1, page 250:
- 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.
- Friendly and peaceful.
- (databases) Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
- (art) Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- (linguistics) Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]relative — see relative
concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected
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relating to, using, or being a method of organizing data in a database
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]relational (strong nominative masculine singular relationaler, not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of relational (uncomparable)
Further reading
[edit]- “relational” in Duden online
- “relational” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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