{
  "id": "database.information",
  "term": "database",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a collection of data that is ordered for digital access",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "data.information",
      "collection.group",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "digital.electrical"
    ],
    "interaction": "data are collected into a collection and ordered for digital access",
    "novel_properties": [
      "searching",
      "updated",
      "persisting"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1974 SAGE system stored U.S. air defense data on magnetic tapes sorted by geographic region and threat level.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Congress maintains a card catalog database with 17 million entries, physically indexed by the Library of Congress Classification.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project published a database in 2003 containing 3.2 billion base pairs, assembled from multiple donors’ DNA sequences.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "database",
    "databases"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-database.information"
}