electronic database

Definitions of electronic database
  1. noun
    (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
    synonyms: computer database, electronic information service, on-line database
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    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
    MRD, electronic dictionary, machine readable dictionary
    a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically
    wordnet
    any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet
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    database
    an organized body of related information
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