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ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic information service mean? 

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE (noun)
  The noun ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computersplay

  Familiarity information: ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database

Hypernyms ("electronic information service" is a kind of...):

database (an organized body of related information)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic information service"):

relational database (a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes)

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)


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