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

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

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

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

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

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