databank
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪtəˌbæŋk/
- Specialized
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banco de datos
- "Your prints are in the databank."
- DNA databank
- national databank
I believe the first protein databank was designed on flash cards.
- I believe the first protein databank was designed on flash cards.
- They made this giant databank that all scientists all over the world can can use called the UK Biobank.
- So they took the DNA, put it in the DNA databank and it Matt, it matched him because his DNA was there because he killed second victim.
- I think you need to so you have your numbers like in your databank.
Examples
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The university maintains a databank of student records, making it easy to access academic histories.
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They made this giant databank that all scientists all over the world can can use called the UK Biobank.
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I was wondering if you could pull up his name on that databank of yours and see.
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The students reported their information, which the teacher wrote on a databank chart.
Academic text (1995) -
The findings are reported as part of a future databank.
Academic text (1991) -
For now, police have to rely on existing DNA databanks.
Academic text (2004) -
Furthermore, educational institutions in Germany lack the support of wide and various databanks that are in use in North American countries.
Academic text (2010) -
The Army has allowed us access to its unclassified history databanks.
Fiction book (1993) -
All 50 states now have DNA databanks containing the DNA profiles of convicted violent or sex offenders.
Academic text (2004) -
All 50 states now have government-operated databanks containing the DNA profiles of known offenders.
Academic text (2004)
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Databank joins data (information) and bank ('a place to keep things safe'). Think of a money bank but for facts and records, which is why a databank is a large, organized store of electronic information you can access when you need it.