Definition: Database

By Jack Krupansky

A database is a method of organizing information for intermediate-term storage such that it can be readily accessed and manipulated by computer software applications, including both the underlying data and a method for describing that data.

See the Wikipedia article on "Database".

Singular of databases.

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