DATABASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does database mean? 

• DATABASE (noun)
  The noun DATABASE has 1 sense:

1. an organized body of related information

  Familiarity information: DATABASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATABASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organized body of related information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("database" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "database"):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)

subdata base (a subset of data in a database that are used in a specific application)

 Context examples 

A suite of database and analysis tools for managing proteomics data; built on LabKey, the open source platform for science developed in partnership with the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center.

(Computational Proteomics Analysis System, NCI Thesaurus)

An area of database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.

(Data Field, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a modification to the original GO database.

(Enhanced Symbol, NCI Thesaurus)

A multi-user relational database management system for managing animal colonies in a research environment.

(Colony Management System, NCI Thesaurus)

An NIH-wide database of information about federally and privately funded clinical trials regarding serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions.

(Clinical Trials Database, NCI Thesaurus)

A database and a set of APIs and tools used to create, edit, control, deploy and find common data elements (CDEs) for metadata consumers and for UML model development.

(Cancer Data Standards Repository, NCI Thesaurus)

The submission and development of ideas for protocols are made easier through electronic forms, templates, and databases.

(Cancer Trials Support Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A web site (http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/) which hosts NCI's searchable clinical trials database containing information on over 1,800 active clinical trials.

(CancerNet, NCI Thesaurus)

A sequence of characters that identifies microbiology specimen data within the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) database.

(Microbiology Specimen LOINC Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A sequence of characters that identifies microbiology susceptibility data within the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) database.

(Microbiology Susceptibility LOINC Code, NCI Thesaurus)