3 definitions
for database
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
database \database\ n.
an organized body of related information.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
database
n : an organized body of related information
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
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)