data
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum, neuter past participle of dō.
Pronunciation- (British, Ireland, America, sometimes, Aus, New Zealand, South Africa)
- (America, Canada, Ireland)
- (Aus, New Zealand, South Africa, <
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plural form of datum - Synonyms: data points
- These data show clearly that X is correlated with Y, although they tell us nothing about causation.
(collectively, uncountable) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized. - This data shows clearly that X is correlated with Y, although it tells us nothing about causation.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
- 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 conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
- (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
- Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points, information
(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process. - Coordinate term: information
(mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi. - run out of data
- data acquisition
- data analysis
- data domain
- data element
- data entry
- data farming
- data hiding
- data integrity
- data maintenance
- data management
- data mining
- data modeling
- data path, datapath
- data processing
- data recovery
- data set
- data sink
- data source
- data warehouse
- data visualization
- French: données
- German: Daten, Informationseinheiten
- Italian: dato
- Portuguese: dados
- Russian: да́нные
- Spanish: datos
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