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referential Definition

ref·er·en·tial (ref′ə ren′s̸həl)

adjective

  1. containing a reference
  2. used for reference

Etymology: < reference (as if < L *referentia) + -al

referential Related Forms
ref′·er·en′·tially adverb
referential Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • integrity: Referential integrity is used to ensure that changes of site name cascade through the tables, for example.
  • transparency: This is a perfectly safe and sensible thing to do given referential transparency.
  • constraint: Please do not add referential integrity constraints to the tables, e.g. through the Visual Data Manager or Access.
  • intention: I demonstrate how this ' reduction to referential intention ' may proceed.
  • meaning: Without the dative form the sentence will have the same referential meaning.
  • context: The results of the reading experiment, however, revealed no significant interaction of referential context with the attachment preference of the relative clause.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: This is effectively the view which Hodges takes, given what he means by " purely referential " .
  • directly: To this extent, a directly referential understanding of ( 2 ) is all that [ we need ] .
  • too: This explains why current music is too referential, crippled by nostalgia and too many ' classic ' record collections.