database management | creation and maintenance of a database |
electronic database on-line database computer database electronic information service | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
database management system DBMS | a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database |
relational database management system | a database management system designed to manage a relational database |
object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
database | an organized body of related information |
relational database | a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes, in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables |
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 |
union sum join | a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets, let C be the union of the sets A and B |
Patent and Trademark Office Database Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
articulation join joint juncture junction | the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made |
join battle | engage in a conflict, The battle over health care reform was joined |
join conjoin | make contact or come together, The two roads join here |
join bring together | cause to become joined or linked, join these two parts so that they fit together |
collaborate join forces cooperate get together | work together on a common enterprise of project, The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well, We joined forces with another research group |
join fall in get together | become part of, become a member of a group or organization, He joined the Communist Party as a young man |
join | come into the company of, She joined him for a drink |
connect link link up join unite | be or become joined or united or linked, The two streets connect to become a highway, Our paths joined, The travelers linked up again at the airport |