ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("electronic information service" is a kind of...):

database (an organized body of related information)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic information service"):

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)