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datum
  1. (plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
  2. (plural: data) (philosophy) A fact known from direct observation.
  3. (plural: data) (philosophy) A premise from which conclusions are drawn.
  4. (plural: datums) (cartography, engineering) A fixed reference point, or a coordinate system.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “That becomes just another datum assumed when choosing amongst alternative choices.”
      “Religious experience is the starting-place of all theology, the most basic datum with which the theologian has to work.”
database
  1. (computing) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
  2. (computing) A set of tables in a database(1).
  3. (computing) A software program for storing, retrieving and manipulating a database(1).
  4. (computing) A combination of (1) and (2).
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Each member library contributes information about the materials it owns and can search the database for information and resources it needs.”
data
  1. (uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.
  2. (uncountable, collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
  3. (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Let's wait for the available data to be gathered and analyzed before we make any decisions.”
      “Here, we draw together recent data on diverse centriole movements to decipher common themes in how centrioles move.”
      “With these data as a foundation, a lineation based simply on the 8- syllable, 3-stress lines has produced a poem of exactly 62 lines.”
datasheet
  1. A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
  2. (computing) A display of the records in a table, arranged in rows and columns.
  3. Examples:
    1. “This datasheet lists, in a standard format, different hazards to which electroplaters may be exposed in the course of their normal work.”
      “To read more about Shoaiba, download the project datasheet in the right column.”
      “The result on samples taken from produce originating from organic farming should be reported in a separate datasheet.”
metadata
  1. Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
  2. (computing) Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
  3. Examples:
    1. “Tools exist for creating and editing RDF, storing the semantic data, inferencing knowledge from the metadata, and visualizing the metadata.”
      “Weblog posts often contain more metadata than a typical web page, things like date and time of publication, categories, backlinks, etc.”
      “These recommendations would cover such things as storage, file formats, metadata, and cataloging.”
databank
  1. A database (collection of organized information in a regular structure)
  2. An organization dedicated to maintaining a database.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Jane Vance looked on in surprise as the bookseller turned to an elderly laptop computer and entered search data into a databank program.”
      “The databank used standardised diagnostic criteria during the study and linkage to the individual original obstetric case notes.”
      “For the proteins studied in this paper, the MSAs were obtained from the HSSP database for those proteins present in the protein databank.”
datalink
  1. (computing) The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Each ground system comprises a mobile ground control station with a datalink communications vehicle, a launch vehicle, a recovery vehicle and a refurbishing vehicle.”
      “Sniper ATP-SE has superior sensors, a two-way datalink and algorithms that boost air-to-ground, air-to-air and maritime targeting capability.”
      “For example, the Datalink comes with a chronograph, countdown timer, interval timer, multiple alarms and even a notepad.”
dataspace
  1. A collection of data that is less formally structured than a database.
dataspeak
datarati
  1. People with a professional or otherwise profound interest in data, considered as a class; data analysts, statisticians.
databox
  1. A sidebox within a book or article, containing illustrative data.
metadatabase
  1. (databases) A database that serves to catalogue and classify other databases.
dataphone
  1. A telephone capable of transmitting data as well as voice.
datahub
  1. (computing) An administrative centre with access to multiple, independent (often remote) databases
datalogger
  1. Any instrument that records data as a function of time
databook
  1. A handbook containing data or statistics.
metadatum
  1. One piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Table 1 shows the total and average number of features for each structured metadatum considered.”
      “The timezone metadatum of the date field can be used to guess the location of the user.”
datagram
  1. (computing) A packet of data passed across a network
datacasting
datacaster
datamining
  1. Alternative spelling of data mining
datacast
  1. A broadcast stream of data
  2. Examples:
    1. “DataCast uses message content to identify groups that have subscribed to receive a message, then multicasts on one or more group channels to hosts running DataCast.”
datapath
  1. (computing) Alternative spelling of data path
  2. Examples:
    1. “Cypress Semiconductor has unveiled samples of the 16 Kbits x 18 and 32 Kbits x 18 versions of the innovative QuadPor Datapath Switch Element family.”
dataset
  1. Alternative spelling of data set
  2. Examples:
    1. “The database architecture is based on dataset components linked to data sources via provider and resolver interfaces.”
      “The dataset is also very 'natural', consisting of images spidered from the Internet.”
      “The multivocal analysis process for the PLTL dataset proceeded in two major phases, each discussed separately in this chapter.”
data sheet
data
  1. plural of datum
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Let's wait for the available data to be gathered and analyzed before we make any decisions.”
      “Here, we draw together recent data on diverse centriole movements to decipher common themes in how centrioles move.”
      “With these data as a foundation, a lineation based simply on the 8- syllable, 3-stress lines has produced a poem of exactly 62 lines.”
metadatabases
  1. plural of metadatabase
datacasters
  1. plural of datacaster
dataloggers
  1. plural of datalogger
data sheets
dataphones
  1. plural of dataphone
datasheets
  1. plural of datasheet
dataspaces
  1. plural of dataspace
databooks
  1. plural of databook
datagrams
  1. plural of datagram
datalinks
  1. plural of datalink
databanks
  1. plural of databank
databases
  1. plural of database
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They translate the raw data from numerous family-of-system databases into actionable information for battlefield commanders.”
      “Some data will be compared with commercial databases to see if identities are accurate and to resolve false positive matches with the watch list.”
      “For example, huge databases have been established of genes that are aberrantly regulated in cancers.”
datacasts
  1. plural of datacast
datapaths
  1. plural of datapath
datahubs
  1. plural of datahub
datasets
  1. plural of dataset
  2. Examples:
    1. “The predictive quality of the model was tested on several independent datasets.”
      “Figure 2a shows a comparison of the ratios of the two peaks of luminescence obtained from full datasets for two separate experiments.”
      “Tests are executed using 2 and 4 processors on selected sample datasets are analyzed through commonly used cluster validity indices and parallelization performance metrices.”
databoxes
  1. plural of databox
datums
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