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query language

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noun

  1. computing the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Her specialty was GraphQL, a query language at the heart of Twitter’s application programming interface.

From New York Times Dec. 23, 2022

The majority of the objections were sustained, and Bredehoft found herself struggling to find query language that would be allowed during her redirect questioning.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2022

A search tool from AI2 called SPIKE-CORD focuses not only on retrieval of papers, but on extraction of information from them, using a simple query language.

From Nature Jun. 8, 2020

"Datafun: a functional query language," and "Particle physics, 10,000 times faster" Jim Pivarski, who works in high energy physics, and Michael Arntzenius, who researches program language design, both have great beards.

From The Verge Oct. 2, 2017

We started with the geeky message, we have this Web-native query language, and it’s awesome!

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2011

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