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noun

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

data bank.

Also, da·ta-base, data base.

Origin:
1965–70; data + base¹

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Make sure it gets included in our campus-architecture database.

The database should also show clearly what the survival rates are for each major type of treatment for each stage of cancer.

Explore this searchable database for information and photographs of reptiles and amphibians.

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Make sure it gets included in our campus-architecture database.

The database should also show clearly what the survival rates are for each major type of treatment for each stage of cancer.

Explore this searchable database for information and photographs of reptiles and amphibians.

Affordable genetic sequencing and a new database of.

Then they put the hits in a database and compare the new terms to words they already have.

Except as noted, those of the species listed in this database are soft to the touch.

Google does similar geodata collection for its own location-services database.

Database miners still have to learn how best to use all that data.

The kit identification number you have entered is not recognized by the database.

To find the dating site that is the real deal always go for one that has a huge database and that is well known.

Browse by planet or search the database for your favorites.

Apple also said it made a mistake by making the location database file too large.

For many companies, potential benefits from fine-tuning their system are too small to justify the database.

Imagine a database with digital files on every imperiled animal on the planet.

Then a bone sample goes out for genetic matching with the family database.

Those databases are restricted by federal and state laws, even in states that allow the database to be sold.

Best they be aware of where their future threats are lest they be caught out in the database behemoth's wake.

Explain to students that they will create a chart or database for comparing information about different countries.

It is with such victims in mind that, earlier this year, the police developed a database of tags and put it on the internet.

Clearly the model of providing a freely accessible database is a successful one.

But for this database to be useful, it must be constantly updated.

Information about facilities contained in this database comes from two sources:.

It uses this information to create a database of backgrounds, events, objects and activities.

When this information is played over time, the clip's video genome can be compared to a database using bioinformatic.

It can also index files outside of the database itself, which are then internally accessible.

Database search turns up research papers suspiciously similar to prior publications, prompting investigations.

Pacific time, saying it was down temporarily due to a database failure.

Now students can vet their work against the same database that professors use.

The data from each instrument are stored in a shared database and made available in real time through the project's website.

London police unveil a database program to track misbehaving children, ostensibly to head off future criminal behavior.

Students must first give their permission for their work to be copied into the database.

The proposed database was ten times larger than the largest biometric database in existence.

Browse and download topo maps and trails from our new recreation database.

If police wanted to, they could subpoena the iPhone's location database file when investigating.

He screened the results against a database of known allergenic proteins.

For the past three years researchers have been building an environmental and genetic database for tortilla-quality wheat.

As he does so, his database deviates ever more widely from the other three record keeping weather science databases.

The company now says that the purportedly stolen database did not.

It could become the world's best database of household appliances and consumer electronics-and even foresee breakdowns.

Type in characteristics of the spider you are trying to identify and this database will give you names of possible species.

It's also important for improving the climate database that comes into play when interpreting modern climate records.

Researchers are building a brain database to help predict how drugs.

It offers a searchable database of free listings, including small ads which can be narrowed down to postal regions.

Some future state legislature, once they realize they funded this effort, will seize the database.

The chips provide access to a crime database and track their.

Another is based solely on the contents of a database of academic articles.

The crawler is sent out periodically by the database maintainers to collect web pages.

More likely, the hacker simply breaks into the database of the e-commerce site, where the information is not encrypted.

It enables people to ask questions, the answers to which are served up from a database provided by other users.

The app identifies it and checks in a database to score how it shapes.

So would encouraging researchers to deposit their raw data into a central database when they publish a paper based on.

Sophisticated radio tags and database software are not much use in places where street hawkers peddle fakes with impunity.

Automated harvesters will then use the database to identify and gather individual produce whenever it is ready for harvest.

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World English Dictionary

database (ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs)

—n
1.	a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose
2.	informal any large store of information: a database of knowledge

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Science Dictionary

database

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

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Cultural Dictionary

database definition

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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Computing Dictionary

database definition

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.
Carol E. Brown's tutorial (http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aies/www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm).
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.
(2005-11-17)

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