Look up: query

1. query
   1. (database, information science) A user's (or agent's) request for information, generally as a formal request to a database or search engine. SQL is the most common database query language. 2. (character) question mark. (1997-04-09)
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2. Query
   The process of selecting features in a database. Can be acheived through a query language directly on the data or, in a GIS, by interactively selecting features.
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3. Query
   An inquiry sent to a server.
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4. Query
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) Message used to inquire about the value of some variable or set of variables.
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5. query
   request addressed by the user to the DBMS in order to insert new data into the database and to consult or update existing information Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • series of descriptors related to each other by logical connectors in accordance with a ...
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6. Query
   Que'ry noun ; plural Queries . [ Latin quaere , imperative sing. of quaerere , quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Confer Acquire , Conquer , Exquisite , Quest , Requir...
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7. Query
   Que'ry intransitive verb 1. To ask questions; to make inquiry. « Each prompt to query , answer, and debate.» Pope. 2. To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
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8. Query
   Que'ry transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Queried ; present participle & verbal noun Querying .] 1. To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as,...
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9. Query
   • (v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry. • (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity. • (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. • (v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity. • (v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit...
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10. query
    query 1. A request for information. 2. A doubt or criticism.
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11. Query
    is a question or series of questions that are presented to a knowledge management system or information retrieval system. Data and information can be retrieved with a query. The most precise queries are those which return the fewest false drops. The result of a query needs interpretation by the requ...
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12. Query
    (n) Query is defined as a question, doubts, clarifications sought on any issue related to the subject matter of consideration put for ward with an intention to get an answer or clarifications etc. from the concerned person.
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13. query
    n. common lawyer lingo for a question to be answered.
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14. query
    In computing, a question asked of a database. Queries form the bulk of programmed processes and are run as an intermediate stage between data input and the output report. A query needs to be set up and executed in order to generate information that will then be passed to the report generator. Querie...
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15. Query
    (Quaker) Quakers use the term `Query` to refer to a question or series of questions used for reflection and in spiritual exercises. Friends have used Queries as tools for offering spiritual challenges to the community for much of their history. Queries often take the form of a collection of t...
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16. Query
    (complexity) In descriptive complexity, a `query` is a mapping from structures of one signature to structures of another vocabulary. Neil Immerman, in his book "Descriptive Complexity", "uses the concept of query as the fundamental paradigm of computation" (p. 17). Given s...
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