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 affecting 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

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