ON-LINE DATABASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on-line database mean? 

• ON-LINE DATABASE (noun)
  The noun ON-LINE DATABASE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON-LINE DATABASE (noun)

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 ("on-line 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 "on-line 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)