relational

Etymology

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

adj

1. Relating to relations.
   essays on relational rights
   Of these three great groups of feelings the first are extremely unrelational; the second are somewhat more relational; and the third are relational in a comparatively high degree. 1873, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, volume 1, page 250
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.