| NOUN | communication | electronic information service, electronic database, on-line database, computer database | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
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| Meaning | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers. | |
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| Synonyms | electronic database, on-line database, computer database | |
| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
| Narrower | lexical database | A database of information about words |
| object-oriented database | A database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition | |
| relational database | A database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes | |
| Broader | database | An organized body of related information |
| Spanish | base de datos electrónica | |
| Catalan | base de dades electrònica | |
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