RELATIONAL DATABASE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes

Example:

in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("relational database" is a kind of...):

computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)

Instance hyponyms:

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System; MEDLARS (relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature)

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