library
- Noun. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
- Noun. A collection of books or other forms of stored information. An individual may refer to his collection of books and other items as his library.
- Noun. An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
- Noun. (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
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