data
♦♦ da|ta /d'eɪtə/
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You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
The study was based on data from 2,100 women...
To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
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Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program. (COMPUTING)
You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.da|ta bank (data banks)
also databank
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A data bank is the same as a database.da|ta min|ing
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Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits. (COMPUTING)
Data mining is used to analyse individuals' buying habits.da|ta pro|cess|ing
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Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
Taylor's company makes data-processing systems.
1 [N-UNCOUNT; also N-PLURAL]
You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
The study was based on data from 2,100 women...
To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program. (COMPUTING)
You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.da|ta bank (data banks)
also databank
[N-COUNT]
A data bank is the same as a database.da|ta min|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Data mining involves collecting information from data stored in a database, for example in order to find out about people's shopping habits. (COMPUTING)
Data mining is used to analyse individuals' buying habits.da|ta pro|cess|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Data processing is the series of operations that are carried out on data, especially by computers, in order to present, interpret, or obtain information.
Taylor's company makes data-processing systems.