<database> A key which identifies a subset of a set of information items (e.g. database "records"), and which could narrow the subset to one item if other partial key(s) were combined with it.
(1997-04-26)
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Nearby terms: partial equivalence relation « partial evaluation « partial function « partial key » partially ordered set » partial ordering » Partial Response Maximum Likelihood
