# Relational

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**Relational** may refer to:

## Business

- [Relational capital](/source/Relational_capital), the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies
- [Relational contract](/source/Relational_contract), a contract whose effect is based upon a relationship of trust between the parties
- [Relational goods](/source/Relational_goods), goods that cannot be enjoyed alone
- [Relational Investors](/source/Relational_Investors), an activist investment fund based in San Diego, California

## Computing

- [Relational calculus](/source/Relational_calculus), part of the relational model for databases that provides a declarative way to specify database queries
- [Relational database](/source/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](/source/Relational_classification), the procedure of performing classification in relational databases - [Relational data mining](/source/Relational_data_mining), the data mining technique for relational databases
- [Relational concept](/source/Relational_concept), a set of mathematically defined tuples in [tuple relational calculus](/source/Tuple_relational_calculus)
- [Relational model](/source/Relational_model), a database model based on first-order predicate logic
- [Relational operator](/source/Relational_operator), a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities

## Linguistics

- [Relational grammar](/source/Relational_grammar), a syntactic theory which argues that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms
- [Relational noun](/source/Relational_noun), a class of words used in many languages
- [Relational oppositeness](/source/Relational_oppositeness), the relationship between two words which seem to be opposites but actually imply each other

## Mathematics

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

## Psychology

- [Relational aggression](/source/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](/source/Relational_disorder), a disorder affecting a relationship rather than an individual in the relationship
- [Relational psychoanalysis](/source/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](/source/Relational_art), a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud
- [Relational dialectics](/source/Relational_dialectics), a concept within communication theory
- [Relational theory](/source/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)](/source/Relational_schema_(disambiguation))

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