database
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, General Australian, US) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
- (UK, New Zealand, General Australian, General South African) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/
Noun
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 and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
- The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
- (computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
- Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
- (computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.
Synonyms
- (computer software): DB
Synonyms
- (collection of organized information): data set, dataset, databank
- (computer software): database management system
Derived terms
computer software
- bibliographic database
- container database
- database administrator
- database analyst
- database engine
- database key
- database management system
- database model
- database publishing
- database transaction
- distributed database
- distributional–relational database
- hierarchical database
- metadatabase
- object database
- pluggable database
- relational database
- subdatabase
- superdatabase
Descendants
- → Danish: database
- → Dutch: database
- → Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: database
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: database
Translations
collection of information
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software program
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Verb
database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)
- To enter data into a database.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English database.
Pronunciation
Noun
database c (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)
Inflection
Declension of database
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | database | databasen | databaser | databaserne |
| genitive | databases | databasens | databasers | databasernes |
Further reading
database on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English database.
Pronunciation
Noun
database f (plural databases, diminutive databaseje n)
Synonyms
French
Noun
database f (plural databases)
- (dated) database
- Synonym: base de données
Interlingua
Noun
database (plural databases)
Italian
Noun
database m (invariable)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databaser, definite plural databasene)
References
- “database” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databasar, definite plural databasane)
References
- “database” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.