Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or arising from kinship.
- adjective Indicating or constituting relation.
- adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or being a word or particle, such as a conjunction or preposition, that expresses a syntactic relation between elements in a phrase or sentence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having relation or kindred.
- Indicating or specifying some relation: used in contradistinction to notional: as, a relational part of speech. Pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions are relational parts of speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having relation or kindred; related.
- adjective Indicating or specifying some relation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
relations . - adjective A database technology using tables and the principles set forth by Dr. Edgar F. Codd. (Contrary to popular notion, "relation" in this context refers to tables, and not linkages.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a relation or being related
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Examples
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In his effort to synthesize and integrate diverse object relations theories and differentiate them from classical Freudian theory, Mitchell uses the term relational matrix to refer to the self, the object, and transactional patterns.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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In his effort to synthesize and integrate diverse object relations theories and differentiate them from classical Freudian theory, Mitchell uses the term relational matrix to refer to the self, the object, and transactional patterns.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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We need to be able to bring our feelings of anxiety and existential vulnerability into dialogue with our fellow sufferers, so that these painful feelings can be held and better borne within relationships -- what I call a relational home -- rather than being evaded by means of the grandiose, destructive resurrective ideologies that have been so characteristic of human history.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Economic Crisis as Collective Trauma 2009
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Teller (1989) has introduced the related idea of what he calls relational holism.
Holism and Nonseparability in Physics Healey, Richard 2008
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This kind of schedule especially affects what he called relational memories, which involve the ability to understand how one thing is related to another.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus ajl148: Chapter 4 Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus Transparencies © Pearson Education Limited 1995, 2005 * Chapter 4 Objectives xxxx Meaning of the term relational completen ...
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These latter forms are termed relational aggression because of the way interpersonal relationships, most often among girls, are manipulated to settle grudges.
Signe Whitson: Sticks and Stones: A Little Girl's First Experience with Bullying Signe Whitson 2011
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Goldberg, now an assistant professor of clinical mental health counseling at Mississippi State University, interviewed 202 female undergraduates on what is called "relational aggression."
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These latter forms are termed relational aggression because of the way interpersonal relationships, most often among girls, are manipulated to settle grudges.
Signe Whitson: Sticks and Stones: A Little Girl's First Experience with Bullying Signe Whitson 2011
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Novalis "holds the self, conceived as an autonomous entity, to be relatively unreal," with the self functioning as "dialectical oscillation rather than discrete entity" (McCort 167), where the poet's view of self exists in relational rather than essential terms:
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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