database
noun
da·ta·base
ˈdā-tə-ˌbās 
ˈda-,
also ˈdä-
computers
: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer)
an online database
database
transitive verb
Examples of database in a Sentence
All of our customers' information was kept in a database.
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Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
The network is reported to have a database of 2.7 million of these orphaned domains and runs tests to check which ones are best to use.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 8 June 2024
How Meta trains its AI Meta, like other tech companies building generative AI tools such as OpenAI and Google, has amassed a vast database of text, image, audio and video with which to train its systems.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 June 2024
Beaumont found that Recall will save information in an easy-to-discover database within the user’s AppData folder.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 June 2024
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database
noun
da·ta·base
ˈdāt-ə-ˌbās
ˈdat-,
also ˈdät-
: a collection of data that is organized especially to be used by a computer
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