| an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usu. stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user. |
relational database  (rĭ-lā'shə-nəl) Pronunciation Key
A database system in which any field can be a component of more than one of the database's tables. |