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database

or 岹·ٲ-, da·ta base

[ dey-tuh-beys ]

noun

  1. a comprehensive collection of related data datum organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.


database

/ ˈɪəˌɪ /

noun

  1. a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose
  2. informal.
    any large store of information

    a database of knowledge

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

database

  1. A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval by a computer.

database

  1. A set of data grouped together in one location in (or accessible by) a computer . A computerized database has been likened to an electronic filing cabinet of information arranged for easy access or for a specific purpose.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of database1

First recorded in 1965–70; data + base 1
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Example Sentences

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This is a database which records contracts given out by the US government.

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None of the issues were flagged to senior detectives due to a problem with the police databases used to track open investigations.

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For many, the precise reasons are unknown, and universities have often only learned of the changes when checking a government-run database that logs the visa status of international students.

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“They are disappearing people, marking them as dead in the Social Security database if they are people that DHS has deemed shouldn’t be in the country anymore… they’re digitally murdering these folks.”

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At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security, which maintains a database that affirms the enrollment of foreign students at universities, has terminated the status of the same students.

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