Php Mysql Terms

What you just found in your database is the serialized form of an array.

For the sake of understanding the concept, see the PHP manual on the serialize function.

As an aside: Apart from the fact, that you found this in a WP database though, this question is not WP specific and actually beyond the scope of WPSE.

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