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relational, a. and n.|rɪˈleɪʃənəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to human relationship.
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 18. i. xlix. (1669) 412/1 What thy personal and what thy relational needs are? a1732T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 17 It may fall in the relational part. Relations are the joints of society. 1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 110 One might easily be tempted to take the two nations for relational stems. 1834J. Brown Lett. Sanctif. vi. 319 Be conscientious in the relational duties to God and man.
2. Of, belonging to, or characterized by relation in general.
1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 336/2 The use of Relational words increases in language in the same proportion as the power of inflection diminishes. 1869Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. v. (1870) I. 229 The most highly relational feelings are the visual. 1899C. F. Darcy Idealism & Theol. Introd. 6 Its primary qualities..are essentially relational. 1930J. T. Hatfield et al. Curme Vol. Ling. Stud. 37 The immaterial adnominal cases are the following;..relational—a man in stature. 1946Language XXII. 219 A relational phrase has two immediate constituents. 1967Child Devel. XXXVIII. 841 This study is concerned with the ability of preschool children to use the relational terms ‘more’, ‘same’, and ‘less’ when comparing the number, length, and weight of objects. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 215 The element -ai/ei- is also found in association with one of the so-called ‘relational particles’.
B. n. Gram. A conjunction or preposition considered as a relation-word; a relational particle.
1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iv. 62 There are four principal functional classes of lexical symbols: object words, event words, abstracts, and relationals. 1969Language XLV. 485 Relationals are any units which function primarily as markers of relationships between other terms, e.g. at, by, because, and, or. 1978Ibid. LIV. 80 Some English prepositions correspond to Japanese genitive constructions with no plus relationals.
Hence relatioˈnality, reˈlationally adv.
1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iii. iv. (1868) 307 The close relationality of it is cross to our humanly selfish habit. 1867― in Hours at Home Nov. 6 The objects of nature are relationally..made.
▸ Computing. Designating or relating to a database structure in which data is stored in relatively simple two-dimensional tables that can be combined in response to queries, using key information that is common to more than one table; esp. in relational database n. a database structured in this way. Cf. relation n.
1968Information Storage & Retrieval 4 253 Results by means of relational indexing are showing high values for both recall and precision. 1970E. F. Codd in Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 13 377/2 The relational view (or model) of data described in section 1 appears to be superior in several respects to the graph or network model. 1975Proc. Internat. Conf. Very Large Data Bases 25 (title) Semantic integrity in a relational database system. 1993Macworld Dec. 161/1 You could do a relational merge of a database of customer names and addresses with a database of customers' recent purchases to find out how much response you got from an advertisement. 1995Computing 25 May 39/3 Some vendors and users contend that clever manipulation of a relational database is a less expensive alternative to setting up a multidimensional database. 2002e-Business Advisor (Nexis) Aug. 9 A runtime framework to map Java objects to relational data sources. |