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relational

adjective

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adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about relational at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Relating to relations.
    essays on relational rights
  2. Friendly and peaceful.
  3. Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.

Origin

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

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Related Words: relativerelationshiprationalinterpersonalirreduciblyconnectedrelatedinteractionalsocialassociativeinterdependentinterrelated

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