database
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, General Australian, US) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
Audio (RP) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
- (UK, New Zealand, General Australian, General South African) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/
NounEdit
database (plural databases)
- (general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
- I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
- (computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
- The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
- (computing, loosely, metonymically) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
- Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
- (computing, loosely, metonymically) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.
SynonymsEdit
- (computer software): DB
SynonymsEdit
- (collection of organized information): data set, dataset, databank
- (computer software): database management system
Derived termsEdit
computer software
- bibliographic database
- container database
- database administrator
- database analyst
- database engine
- database management system
- database model
- database publishing
- database transaction
- distributed database
- hierarchical database
- metadatabase
- object database
- pluggable database
- relational database
- subdatabase
- superdatabase
DescendantsEdit
- → Danish: database
- → Dutch: database
- → Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: database
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: database
TranslationsEdit
collection of information
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software program
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VerbEdit
database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English database.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
database c (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)
- database [from 1970]
InflectionEdit
Declension of database
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | database | databasen | databaser | databaserne |
genitive | databases | databasens | databasers | databasernes |
Further readingEdit
- database on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English database.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
database f (plural databases, diminutive databaseje n)
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
database f (plural databases)
- (dated) database
- Synonym: base de données
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
database (plural databases)
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
database m (invariable)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databaser, definite plural databasene)
ReferencesEdit
- “database” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databasar, definite plural databasane)
ReferencesEdit
- “database” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.