Pronunciation
- (British, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, America) IPA: /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
- (Ireland, America) IPA: /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
- (British, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa) IPA: /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/
database (plural databases)
- (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
- I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
- (computing) A set of tables in a database(1).
- The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
- (computing) A software program for storing, retrieving and manipulating a database(1).
- Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
- (computing) A combination of (1) and (2).
- (computer software) DB
- (collection of organized information) databank
- (computer software) database management system
- French: base de données
- German: Datenbank
- Italian: database, base di dati, banca dati, archivio
- Portuguese: banco de dados, base de dados
- Russian: ба́за да́нных
- Spanish: base de datos, banco de datos
- French: base de données (official term), database (deprecated term)
- German: Datenbank
- Italian: database, base di dati
- Portuguese: banco de dados (Brazil), base de dados (Portugal)
- Russian: ба́за да́нных
- Spanish: base de datos
database (databases, present participle databasing; past and past participle databased)
- To enter data into a database.
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