electronic database

Synonyms:

computer database, electronic information service, on-line database

Examples:

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System

relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature

Princeton WordNet

a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University

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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

MRD, electronic dictionary, machine readable dictionary

a machine-readable version of a standard dictionary; organized alphabetically

wordnet

any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet

Type of:

database

an organized body of related information