data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dät'ə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ˈdɑː.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɑʈa/
ipa: [ˈdäː.ɾə]
enpr: dā'tə
rhymes: -eɪtə
homophone: dater (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ˈdeɪ.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖeʈa/
note: US, flapping
ipa: [ˈdeɪ.ɾə]
enpr: dăt'ə
rhymes: -ætə
ipa: /ˈdæt.ə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæ.ʈa/
Forms: form: D
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.
Senses: examples: text: Data can be sent through email.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
text: This data shows that X is correlated with Y.
text: 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[…]
ref: 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:
text: Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
glosses: 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 is usually structured (such as statistics).
examples: text: run out of data
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).
Hyponyms: big data
metadata
primary data
raw data
Derived terms: 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
data bank
databank
database
data-base
data base
databend
data binding
data binning
data blocker
databook
data-bound
databox
data breach
data broker
data bus
data cable
Data Carrier Equipment
datacast
data center
data centre
datacentric
Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
data collection
data collection tree
data communications
Data Communications Equipment
data compression
data controller
data coupling
data cube
data custody
data dictionary
data division
data domain
data dredging
data-driven
data element
data engineer
data entry
data exhaust
data farming
data feed
datafication
datafile
data file
data flow
data flow diagram
dataframe
data fusion
datafy
data gathering
data glove
data governance
datagram
data hiding
datahub
data integration
data integrity
dataism
dataist
data journalism
data journalist
data lake
data lakehouse
data leak
dataless
datalike
datalink
datalog
data logger
datalogger
datalogy
data maintenance
data management
data manager
data mart
data matrix
data member
data mine
data miner
data-mining
data mining
data model
data modeling
datamosh
data munging
data-oriented
datapad
data path
datapath
data-phobe
data phobic
data-phobic
dataphone
data plane
data point
data-point
data poisoning
data-processing
data processing
data processing machine
data protection
data quality
data race
data rate
datarati
data record
data recorder
data recovery
data room
data rot
datascape
data science
data scientist
data scraping
data scrubbing
dataset
data set
datasheet
data sheet
data sink
data slam
data smoothing
data snooping
datasonde
data source
data sovereignty
dataspace
dataspeak
datasphere
data stick
data store
data stream
data structure
data-structured coupling
data swamp
data synchronization
data table
data terminal equipment
datathon
data trail
data transfer object
data transfer rate
data type
dataveillance
dataverse
data visualisation
data visualization
data warehouse
data warehousing
data wrangling
eigendata
electronic data interchange
empirical data
flight data recorder
floating car data
floating cellular data
fundamental data
geodata
hyperdata
master data
master data management
megadata
mega-data
metadata
meta data
microdata
multidata
nuclear data
octal data rate
orthodata
paleodata
paradata
personal data
plain old data
pseudodata
Pure Data
raw data
reference data
session data
single data rate
statistical data binning
streaming data
the plural of anecdote is not data
tramp data
transaction data
USB data blocker
viewdata
virtual data room
voyage data recorder