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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