database

database
    n 1: an organized body of related information
    

database \database\ n.
   an organized body of related information.
   [WordNet 1.5]
    

database
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   1. <database> 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://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aies/www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm).

   2. <hypertext> 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 {website}.

   3. All the facts and rules comprising a {logic programming}
   program.

   (2005-11-17)