Meaning & use
Relational
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Concerning or based on relationships between people, things, or data.
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The therapist focuses on relational patterns within the family rather than individual symptoms.
A relational database organizes information into linked tables.
A note on using this word
Widely used in both psychology, to describe how people relate to one another, and computer science, to describe structured data linked by common fields.
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interpersonalconnective
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