db

3 definitions found

db - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Db
      n 1: a transuranic element [syn: dubnium, Db, hahnium,
           element 105, atomic number 105]
      2: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm
         of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference
         intensity [syn: decibel, dB]

db - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  database
  DB
  
     1. <database> 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://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aies/www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm)
      .
  
     2. <hypertext> 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 website.
  
     3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming
     program.
  
     (2005-11-17)
  

db - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  DB
         DataBase