data


Definition: Meaning of, data in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈdeɪtə /

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[plural,uncountable]
  1. information or facts
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  2. information in a form that can be stored and used, especially on a computer
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data used in phrases

  • Data Protection Act, the
    1. a British law that protects people from other people using the information about them that is stored on computers for wrong purposes, and makes it necessary for people who hold personal information on computers to REGISTER with an authority
  • National Climatic Data Center (noun)
    1. the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data
  • accounting data (noun)
    1. ledgers and journals and spreadsheets all the data that support a financial statement; can be hard copy or machine readable
  • administrative data processing (noun)
    1. data processing in accounting or business management
  • automatic data processing (noun)
    1. data processing by a computer
  • automatic data processing system (noun)
    1. a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage
  • business data processing (noun)
    1. data processing in accounting or business management
  • data bank (noun)
    1. a database
  • data centre (noun)
    1. facility used to house large networked computer systems and associated components, e.g. for distribution of data or providing cloud computing services
  • data communication (noun)
    1. as for storage and processing by computers electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally
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