FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n 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.

n 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.

n An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library

n (computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.