Library / English Dictionary

    ON-LINE DATABASE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computersplay

    Synonyms:

    computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("on-line database" is a kind of...):

    database (an organized body of related information)

    Domain category:

    computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "on-line database"):

    relational database (a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes)

    object-oriented database (a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition)

    lexical database (a database of information about words)

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