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OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does object-oriented database mean?
• OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE (noun)
The noun OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE has 1 sense:
1. a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition
Familiarity information: OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("object-oriented database" is a kind of...):
computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)
Meronyms (parts of "object-oriented database"):
hypertext (machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected)
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