EGAVE

data

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 266.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun plural of datum
    These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun 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).
    This data shows that X is correlated with Y.
  4. noun Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).
    run out of data

Similar words

information informatics computer datafile datatype dataset databank database datasheet statistical

Often followed by

on from are for and in is to of

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