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column
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[database structures]
An item in an attribute table. -
[computing]
The vertical dimension of a table. Each column stores the values of one type of attribute for all the records, or rows, in the table. All the values in a given column are of the same data type; for example, number, string, BLOB, or date. -
[data models]
A vertical group of cells in a raster, or pixels in an image. 
