Relational

Relational may refer to:

Business

 * Relational capital, the value inherent in a company's relationships with its customers, vendors, and other important constituencies
 * Relational contract, a contract whose effect is based upon a relationship of trust between the parties
 * Relational goods, goods that cannot be enjoyed alone
 * Relational Investors, an activist investment fund based in San Diego, California

Computing

 * Relational calculus, part of the relational model for databases that provides a declarative way to specify database queries
 * 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, the procedure of performing classification in relational databases
 * Relational data mining, the data mining technique for relational databases
 * Relational concept, a set of mathematically defined tuples in tuple relational calculus
 * Relational model, a database model based on first-order predicate logic
 * Relational operator, a programming language construct or operator that tests or defines some kind of relation between two entities

Linguistics

 * Relational grammar, a syntactic theory which argues that primitive grammatical relations provide the ideal means to state syntactic rules in universal terms
 * Relational noun, a class of words used in many languages
 * Relational oppositeness, the relationship between two words which seem to be opposites but actually imply each other

Mathematics

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

Psychology

 * 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, a disorder affecting a relationship rather than an individual in the relationship
 * 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, a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud
 * Relational dialectics, a concept within communication theory
 * 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