relational

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

irrelational, unrelational

Synonyms

relative

comparative

connexion

contact

copulation

germane

hookup

interrelated

kindred

linked

nexus

pertinent

proportionate

relation

relevant

respective

touch

vinculum

associate

cognate with

connection

Translations

relationnel

relational

relativo

Beziehung

Relation

ilişkisel

relacional

علائقي

bağıntısal

relacional

συγγενικός

σχετικός

relazionale

relacional

Etymology

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