relational database: Meaning and Definition of

rela'tional da'tabase

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usu. stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user.
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