[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

database \database\ n.
   an organized body of related information.
   wordnet 1.5

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

database
     n : an organized body of related information

[3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

database
     
        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.
     
        carol e. brown's tutorial
        http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/.
     
        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 web site.
     
        3. all the facts and rules comprising a logic programming
        program.
     
        2002-02-09
     
     
see also:
query records fields database management system ansi/sparc architecture atomic 
blob data definition language deductive database distributed database fourth generation language 
functional database object-oriented database relational database lt;carol e. brown's tutorialgt; nodes 
server links world-wide web web site logic programming 

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