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RELATIONAL DATABASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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