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Dictionary: data bank or da·ta·bank (dā'tə-băngk', dăt'ə-) pronunciation
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n.
  1. See database.
  2. An organization chiefly concerned with building, maintaining, and using a database.

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Any electronic depository of data.

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Information resources of an organization or business.

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In telecommunications, a data bank is a repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval. A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized. In this sense, data bank is synonymous with database.

Data bank may also refer to an organization primarily concerned with the construction and maintenance of a database.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - databank

Français (French)
n. - banque de données

Deutsch (German)
n. - Datenbank

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (Η/Υ) τράπεζα δεδομένων, κεντρικό ηλεκτρονικό αρχείο

Italiano (Italian)
banca dati

Português (Portuguese)
n. - banco (m) de dados

Русский (Russian)
банк данных

Español (Spanish)
n. - banco de datos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - databank

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
数据库

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 資料庫

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 데이터 뱅크(전자 계산기용 정보와 그 축적, 보관 및 제공 기관)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - データバンク

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מאגר נתונים‬

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