partial key
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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.
Last updated: 1997-04-26
Nearby terms:
partial function ♦ partial key ♦ partially ordered set ♦ partial order
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