"knowledge base" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: knowledge bases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} knowledge base (plural knowledge bases)
  1. A database designed to meet the complex storage and retrieval requirements of computerized knowledge management, especially in support of artificial intelligence or expert systems. Wikipedia link: knowledge base Categories (topical): Databases, Information science Synonyms: knowledgebase [uncommon] Hypernyms: base Translations (database): 知識庫 /知识库 (zhīshikù) (Chinese Mandarin), znalostní báze [feminine] (Czech), alusteadmised (Estonian), tietämyskanta (Finnish), tudásbázis (Hungarian), basis pengetahuan (Indonesian), 知識ベース (chishiki bēsu) (Japanese), pangkalan pengetahuan (Malay)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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