ter and Information Sciences] 
n., An organized collection of information held on a computer. [Government] 
n., Any collection of information, automated or not, without regard to how it is accessed or stored. [General Dictionaries] 
n., A (large) collection of data items and links between them, structure in a way that allows it to be access by a number of different applications programs or query languages. The terms is also used loosely to describe any collection of data. [General Dictionaries] 
n., Any col