database \database\ n.
   an organized body of related information.
   [WordNet 1.5]

	

	database
     n : an organized body of related information

	

	database
     
        1.  One or more large structured sets of persistent
        data, usually associated with software to update and query
        the data.  A simple database might be a single file containing
        many records, each of which contains the same set of
        fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
     
        A database is one component of a database management system.
     
        See also ANSI/SPARC Architecture, atomic, blob, data
        definition language, deductive database, distributed
        database, fourth generation language, functional
        database, object-oriented database, relational database.
     
        Carol E. Brown's tutorial
        (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/).
     
        2.  A collection of nodes managed and stored in
        one place and all accessible via the same server.  Links
        outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
     
        On the World-Wide Web this is called a web site.
     
        3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming
        program.
     
        (2002-02-09)