Meanings
nounArmstrong's axioms pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlycomputingA set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database.
Origin
Developed by William W. Armstrong in a 1974 paper.
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