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da·ta·base    Audio Help   [dey-tuh-beys] Pronunciation Key
–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.

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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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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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