relational.

Concerned with or constituted through relationships between people, things or elements.

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Words that belong together

• relational analysis
• relational property

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Relational analysis examined how the positions depended on one another.

The property was relational because its description required another object as a reference.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Relational adjective; no ordinary degree comparison except where a meaningful degree is explicitly intended. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, institutional analysis, scope assessment, comparison. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, conceptual explanation. Commonness: moderately common.