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da·ta·base

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–noun

1.	a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.

2.	data bank.

Also, data-base, data base.

[Origin: 1965–70; data + base¹

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da·ta·base Audio Help   (dā'tə-bās', dāt'ə-) Pronunciation Key
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.

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database
noun
an organized body of related information

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ˈdatabase noun

(also ˈdata-bank) a large amount of information which is stored in a computer

Finnish:	tietopankki
French:	banque de données
Greek:	βάση δεδομένων
Hungarian:	adatbázis; adatbannk
Italian:	database
Korean:	?컴퓨터? 데이터 베이스
Latvian:	datu banka
Lithuanian:	duomenø bankas

Norwegian:	databank; database
Polish:	bank danych
Portuguese (Brazil):	banco de dados
Slovenian:	banka podatkov
Spanish:	base de datos
Swedish:	databas
Turkish:	veri bankası

See also: data, data-processing

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database Audio Help (dā'tə-bās', dāt'ə-) Pronunciation Key
A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval by a computer.

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
database

A set of data grouped together in one location in (or accessible by) a computer. A computerized database has been likened to an electronic filing cabinet of information arranged for easy access or for a specific purpose.

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1. One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data. A simple database might be a single file containing many records, each of which contains the same set of fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
A database is one component of a database management system.
See also ANSI/SPARC Architecture, atomic, blob, data definition language, deductive database, distributed database, fourth generation language, functional database, object-oriented database, relational database.
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2. A collection of nodes managed and stored in one place and all accessible via the same server. Links outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
On the World-Wide Web this is called a website.
3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming program.
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