on-line database

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on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers computer database, electronic database, electronic information service computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures 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