DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does database management system mean? 

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

1. a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

database management system; DBMS

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

computer software; package; software; software package; software program; software system ((computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory)

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

relational database management system (a database management system designed to manage a relational database)

object-oriented database management system (a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database)

 Context examples 

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

(Colony Management System, NCI Thesaurus)