Definitions for Database
Database

Princeton's WordNet(2.50 / 12 votes)Rate this definition:

1. database(noun)

   an organized body of related information

Wiktionary(2.28 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. database(Noun)

   A combination of (1) and (2).

2. database(Verb)

   To enter data into a database

Freebase(3.40 / 15 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Database

   A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality, in a way that supports processes requiring this information. Database management systems are specially designed applications that interact with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose database management system is a software system designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle, SAP, dBASE, FoxPro, IBM DB2 and FilemakerPro. A database is not generally portable across different DBMS, but different DBMSs can inter-operate by using standards such as SQL and ODBC or JDBC to allow a single application to work with more than one database.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Database

   Work consisting of a structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. database

   Information that is normally structured and indexed for user access and review. Databases may exist in the form of physical files (folders, documents, etc.) or formatted automated data processing system data files.

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1. database

   A computer document or piece of software.

   A database can be a spreadsheet or actual piece of software.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Database' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3046

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Database' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2641

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Database' in Nouns Frequency: #1031

How to pronounce Database?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Database in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Database in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Database in a Sentence

1. Charlie Winter:

   What this database points to is the fact that use of children is far more normalized, they are not just being used to shock people in execution videos. They are being used for their operational value as well. This is something that sadly we have to expect to increase and accelerate as the situation becomes more precarious for ISIS in the years to come.

2. Sam Seddon:

   What we are doing at Wimbledon is teaching Watson tennis, there is a data set at Wimbledon that sits in a huge structured database, then there is Wimbledon's huge historical archive. Watson can receive a question from Wimbledon's digital team in natural language, understand if it is a statistical question or a language question and then find the answer.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   In many respects, unfortunately, though this may sound a little scary and harsh, I don't mean it to be that way, is that you're going to be actually part of the experiment of the learning curve of what we need to know, we don't have the total database of knowing what there is to expect.

4. William Binney:

   Now what [Mueller] is talking about is going into the NSA database, which is shown of course in the [Edward] Snowden material released, which shows a direct access into the NSA database by the FBI and the CIA, so that means that NSA and a number of agencies in the U.S. government also have those [Clinton] emails.

5. John Losey:

   Even though citizen scientists may not be able to identify a species correctly, they can still make their attempt at identification, every data point is certified by our experts and then only the ones where we can identify the species go into the database.

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