query language

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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

Twitter API v2 includes features that were missing from the earlier API, like conversation threading, poll results in tweets, pinned tweets, spam filtering and more powerful stream filtering and search query language.

From The Verge

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

At one point, Johnson said, “I was dreaming in SQL query language” — the computer programming language used to extract data from a database.

From Seattle Times