Definition of data in English:

noun

• 1Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

  ‘there is very little data available’

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  • ‘Police time will then be spent collecting together the data and providing statistics that indicate the ethnicity of those stopped.’
  • ‘These programs are used to edit and prepare the collected data for analysis.’
  • ‘Web surveys have reduced the cost of data collection and made data analysis more efficient.’
  • ‘The IMF insists that the Department of Statistics gets economic data together in a timely fashion.’
  • ‘She said the publication uses data from monthly opinion polls, statistical data, and an analysis of media reports.’
  • ‘All interpretation of data and analysis of statistics will then be carried out in-house by the Chamber.’
  • ‘He notes that the pair provide graphs but no statistical analysis of their data.’
  • ‘Analysis of variance and Chi square tests were used for statistical analysis of data.’
  • ‘He cited a recent analysis based on data collected by a software company that was funded by a CIA-connected firm.’
  • ‘In time, more and more use will be made of statistical analysis of data to describe rocks that fall into a few named categories.’
  • ‘The S Language is a powerful tool for the statistical and graphical analysis of data.’
  • ‘In this section, we will discuss some details of our measurement software and the collected data.’
  • ‘The solution rested with data collection and analysis by a number of SPC member companies.’
  • ‘Using predominantly CPS files, I was able to collect statistical data on a number of variables.’
  • ‘The structure of the database permits easy retrieval of specific mutation data for further analysis.’
  • ‘We used grounded theory to guide sampling and collection and analysis of data.’
  • ‘With this book we try to bridge this gap and present real data and facts together with concepts commonly used in economics.’
  • ‘The reduction in violent crime is evident in the raw data, before any statistical analysis.’
  • ‘RTW collected the data, carried out statistical analyses, and reviewed the manuscript.’
  • ‘Evaluation is the systematic collection and analysis of relevant data to inform decision making.’

  Synonyms

  facts, figures, statistics, details, particulars, specifics, features

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  1. 1.1The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.
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     • ‘Argote gives the example of old recordings of film or data stored on magnetic tape.’
     • ‘The transmitting modem translates digital computer data into analog signals that can be carried over a phone line.’
     • ‘The coherent light beams could lead to ultrafast computer circuitry that transmits data optically.’
     • ‘With a day's diving complete, the team recorded their data in laptop computers and’
     • ‘HP's wireless keyboards can transmit data to other computers in faraway buildings.’
     • ‘Some allow you to download stored data to your computer as a way of keeping track of your progress.’
     • ‘The accumulated data is recorded and stored because the material flow must be traceable.’
     • ‘Three playbacks are planned, to ensure that all recorded data are safely transmitted to Earth.’
     • ‘While backing up data may be a minor chore for many, backing up vast quantities of data is a major operation.’
     • ‘The data signal is stored in a first memory in response to the write clock signal.’
     • ‘Spent the morning verifying health records and entering data in the computer; always a great joy.’
     • ‘Radio signals send that data to a computer mounted on the handlebars for the cyclists to read.’
     • ‘Internet 2 continues to break astounding records for transmitting data.’
     • ‘An electronic tag containing an EPC on a microchip stores and transmits data to a reader.’
     • ‘It can also monitor sales and store financial data on recording companies and rights-holders.’
     • ‘It's primarily designed to prefetch large quantities of data to help prevent processor stalls.’
     • ‘A query is executed in a computer to retrieve data from a database stored on a data storage device.’
     • ‘From cassette tapes to disk drives, the most popular way to store data is with magnetic materials.’
     • ‘WinBackup is designed to make it easy to perform regular backups of all or selected data on your computer.’
     • ‘The audit trailing of data is likely to multiply the amount of transactional data we store by a factor of two or more.’
  2. 1.2Philosophy Things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning or calculation.
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     • ‘The roots of relativism lie not in empirical data but in certain epistemological and metaphysical preconceptions.’
     • ‘The other is that he had come to make a virtue of the fact that the basic data of knowledge are never certain, but at best merely credible to some degree.’
     • ‘How do sense-data differ from other data, e.g. from those of memory or introspection?’
     • ‘These data consist of raw facts, as free as possible of confining hypotheses.’
     • ‘These data can be accepted on the basis of the reliability of our natural faculties with respect to the natural world.’