[W/K] :: database

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

  database
       n : an organized body of related information

  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.
       
          Carol E. Brown's tutorial
          (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/).
       
          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.
       
          (2002-02-09)