database
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)databases
- an organized body of related informationType of information, infoKinds list, subdata base, electronic database
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Translations
Noun collection of information
- Spanish
- base de datos
- French
- base de données
- German
- Datenbank
- Italian
- database
- Portuguese
- banco de dados
- Turkish
- veri tabanı
- Russian
- ба́за да́нных báza dánnyx
- Arabic
- قَاعِدَة بَيَانَات qāʕidat bayānāt
- Chinese
- 数据库 shùjùkù
- Japanese
- データベース dētabēsu
26 more languages
- Dutch
- database
- Polish
- baza danych
- Swedish
- databas
- Greek
- βάση δεδομένων vási dedoménon
- Korean
- 데이터베이스 deiteobeiseu
- Indonesian
- pangkalan data
- Vietnamese
- cơ sở dữ liệu
- Hungarian
- adatbázis
- Portuguese (PT)
- banco de dados
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 數據庫 shùjùkù
- Catalan
- base de dades
- Czech
- databáze
- Danish
- database
- Esperanto
- datumbazo
- Estonian
- andmebaas
- Finnish
- tietokanta
- Georgian
- მონაცემთა ბაზა monacemta baza
- Icelandic
- gagnagrunnur
- Kurdish
- danegeh
- Lithuanian
- duomenų bazė
- Norwegian
- database
- Scottish Gaelic
- stòr-dàta
- Serbo-Croatian
- baza podataka
- Slovak
- databáza
- Swahili
- hifadhidata
- Welsh
- data-bas
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
an organized body of related information.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<database> 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.<hypertext> 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)