relational
The English word “relational” has 5 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Relating to relations.
- Friendly and peaceful.
- Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
- Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
- Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
Etymology
From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
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