| 1. | a fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, usually stored in and used via a computer system. |
| 2. | database. |
data bank or da·ta·bank  (dā'tə-bāngk', dāt'ə-)  n.
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| da·ta·base (dā'tə-bās', dāt'ə-) n. also data base A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. Also called data bank. tr.v. da·ta·based, da·ta·bas·ing, da·ta·bas·es To put (data) into a database. |