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ELECTRONIC DATABASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic database mean?
• ELECTRONIC DATABASE (noun)
The noun ELECTRONIC DATABASE has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Familiarity information: ELECTRONIC DATABASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database
Hypernyms ("electronic database" is a kind of...):
database (an organized body of related information)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic database"):
relational database (a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes)
object-oriented database (a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition)
lexical database (a database of information about words)
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