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From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
database
n : an organized body of related information
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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}.
{(http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm)}.
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.
(1997-03-04)
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