The human mind works by association, leaping from thought to thought, following an intricate trail of conceptual relationships having no immediately obvious structure.

Meaning: in architecture, there should be a conceptual relationship between the parts and the whole.

The conceptual relationship between Gentile's Actual Idealism and his fascism is not evident.

The lovers' families continue to interfere with their fragile and largely conceptual relationship.

To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as "the system" is to speak correctly, since these organizations are founded upon the same structural conceptual relationships as a motorcycle.

Solid lines between boxes indicate code relationships, while dotted lines indicate conceptual relationships.

Managing the technical, formal and conceptual relationships among these figures required the skills of a military tactician.

Historian Michael Lind describes it as a coherent applied economic philosophy with logical and conceptual relationships with other economic ideas.

In the metaphysical conceit, metaphors have a much more purely conceptual, and thus tenuous, relationship between the things being compared.

The diagram below illustrates the conceptual relationship between identities and entities, as well as between identities and their attributes.