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data

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːtə/

The English word “data” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”); by surface analysis, dat(um) + -a. Doublet of date.

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