transaction : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: transaction	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for transaction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transaction n the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me" Synonym(s): transaction, dealing, dealings
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transaction \Transac"tion\, n. [L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See {Act}, {Agent}.] 1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance. 2. That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange. 3. (Civil Law) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. {Transaction* of a society}, the published record of what it has done or accomplished. Syn: Proceeding; action; process. Usage: {Transaction}, {Proceeding}. A transaction is something already done and completed; a proceeding is either something which is now going on, or, if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress or successive stages. Note: [bd] We the word proceeding in application to an affray in the street, and the word transaction to some commercial negotiation that has been carried on between certain persons. The proceeding marks the manner of proceeding, as when we speak of the proceedings in a court of law. The transaction marks the business transacted; as, the transactions on the Exchange.[b8] --Crabb.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
transaction A unit of interaction with a {DBMS} or similar system. It must be treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. See {atomic}.