Relational

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Relational may refer to:

Business

• Relational capital, the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies
• Relational contract, a contract whose effect is based upon a relationship of trust between the parties
• Relational goods, goods that cannot be enjoyed alone
• Relational Investors, an activist investment fund based in San Diego, California

Computing

• Relational calculus, part of the relational model for databases that provides a declarative way to specify database queries
• Relational database, a database that has a collection of tables of data items, all of which is formally described and organized according to the relational model
  • Relational classification, the procedure of performing classification in relational databases
  • Relational data mining, the data mining technique for relational databases
• Relational concept, a set of mathematically defined tuples in tuple relational calculus
• Relational model, a database model based on first-order predicate logic
• Relational operator, a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities

Linguistics

• Relational grammar, a syntactic theory which argues that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms
• Relational noun, a class of words used in many languages
• Relational oppositeness, the relationship between two words which seem to be opposites but actually imply each other

Mathematics

• Relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic and of algebra of sets concerned with operations over finitary relations
• Relation (mathematics) such as binary relation, a collection of ordered pairs of elements of a set

Psychology

• Relational aggression or covert bullying, a type of aggression in which harm is caused through damage to one’s relationships or social status
• Relational disorder, a disorder effecting a relationship rather than an individual in the relationship
• Relational psychoanalysis, a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorder and psychotherapy

Other uses

• Relational art, a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud
• Relational dialectics, a concept within communication theory
• Relational theory, a framework to understand reality or a physical system in such a way that the positions and other properties of objects are only meaningful relative to other objects

See also

• Relational schema (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Relational"

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