Definition of "relational"

relational

adjective
comparative more relational, superlative most relational
1. Relating to relations.
  Quotations
  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.
5. (linguistics) Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.