data

noun

(collective) 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).

(collective, computing) 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.

A barangay of Sabangan, Mountain Province, Philippines.

(mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”). [(mobile telephony) Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.]

Roots

dareda- · Latin · to give

Synonyms for data

informationn datumn statisticsn infon factsn documentationn

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Where does data come from?

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