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Relational   Listen
adjective
Relational  adj.  
1.
Having relation or kindred; related. "We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems."
2.
Indicating or specifying some relation. "Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc."





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"Relational" Quotes from Famous Books



... discursive thought and all secondary mental figments, and, third, the equilibrium and total power of that new organism in action represented by the ideal. Spirituality, which might have resided in the elementary values, sensuous or passionate, before the relational process supervened, can now exist only in the ultimate activity to which these processes are instrumental. Obstacles to spirituality in human life may accordingly take the form of an arrest either at the elementary values—an entanglement in sense and ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... to find a theoretic base for this symbolic establishment of the relational quality of tones, and he dimly guessed that the order of the harmonics or upper tones of a given tonic would furnish a principle for forming the familiar major scale,[329] but his knowledge of the order was faulty. He was perhaps groping after ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley


Words linked to "Relational" :   relational adjective, relational database management system, comparative


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