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Data bank

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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. (Sources: Federal Standard 1037C and MIL-STD-188)

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

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