data
A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.
Noun computing, engineering
- A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.
- Data can be sent through email.
- Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and usually structured (such as statistics).
- Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
- This data shows that X is correlated with Y.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound...
Synonyms: dataset data set data points
- Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).
- run out of data
Origin
Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”). Doublet of date.
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abstract data type air data algebraic data type anecdata application protocol data unit automatic data processing machine biodata bulk data champion data dark data data access object data acquisition data analysis databack databank data bank data base data-base database databend data binding data binning data blocker databook
Noun form of, plural
- plural of datum
- Holonym: data set
- These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.
- First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z - 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova, London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:
Synonyms: data points