Associations to the word «Referential»

Wiktionary

REFERENTIAL, adjective. Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
REFERENTIAL, adjective. Serving as a reference.
REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY, noun. (computing) (databases) The property of a relational database that enforces valid relationships between tables, such that no foreign key can contain a value that does not match a primary key in the corresponding linked table.

Dictionary definition

REFERENTIAL, adjective. Referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope