Definition of "relational" in English

adjective

1. Relating to relations.

   • essays on relational rights

2. Friendly and peaceful.

3. (databases) Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.

4. (art) Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

   • relational art

5. (linguistics) Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.