data
UK/ˈdɑːtə/
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South Asia/ɖɑʈɑ/
data is the plural of datum.
data is the ellipsis of mobile data.
Noun
data (uncountable)
- 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.
- Data can be sent through email.
- 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).
- Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
- This data shows that X is correlated with Y.
- Synonyms:
- dataset, data set, data points
Meaning of datum
Noun
datum (plural (sense 1 and 2) data or (senses 3 and 4) datums)
- Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning or inference which an intellectual system of any sort (such as knowledge or theoretical framework) is constructed.
- a datum of experience
- A point, line, plane, or surface with reference to which positions (such as elevations) are measured or indicated. (Examples include a permanent benchmark in leveling or mean sea level in a topographical survey).
- A geodetic datum is sometimes also called a benchmark.
- A floating reference point, or SLDMB, used to evaluate surface currents in a body of water, and often employed by coastal search and rescue.
Meaning of mobile data
Noun
mobile data (uncountable)
- Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.
- Yet O2 says that while it has doubled the number of iPhone users, mobile data use is doubling every 4 months, equivalent to an eightfold growth every year.2010 June 11, Charles Arthur, “Why file-sharing has killed 'unlimited' mobile data contracts”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- data
Proper noun capitalized: Data
Data
- A barangay of Sabangan, Mountain Province, Philippines.
Synonyms of data
Forms of data
| alternative form | D |
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Origin of data
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.
Borrowed from Kankanaey Data. See that for more details.
Words formed from data
- abstract data type
- air data
- algebraic data type
- anecdata
- application protocol data unit
- automatic data processing machine
- biodata
- bulk data
- cellular data
- champion data
- dark data
- data access object
- data acquisition
- data analysis
- databack
- data bank
- databank
- data base
- database
- data-base
- databend
- data binding
- data binning
- data blocker
- databook
- data-bound
- databox
- data breach
- data broker
- data bus
- data cable
- Data Carrier Equipment
- datacast
- data center
- data centre
- datacentric
- Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
- data collection
- data collection tree
- data communications
- Data Communications Equipment
- data compression
- data controller
- data coupling
- data cube
- data custody
- data dictionary
- data division
- data domain
- data dredging
- data-driven
- data dump
- data DVD
- data element
- data engineer
- data entry
- data exhaust
- data farming
- data feed
- datafication
Phrases with data
- big data
- data rot
- data set
- raw data
- data file
- data flow
- data lake
- data leak
- data mart
- data mine
- data path
- data race
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- data rate
- data room
- data sets
- data sink
- data slam
- data type
- data wipe
- meta data
- Pure Data
- data banks
- data bases
- data buses
- data cubes
- data feeds
- data files
- data flows
- data glove
- data lakes
- data leaks
- data marts
- data mined
- data miner
- data mines
- data model
- data paths
- data plane
- data point
- data races
- data rates
- data rooms
- data sheet
- data sinks
- data stick
- data store
- data swamp
- data table
- data trail
- data types
- data wipes
- Mount Data
- sense data
- tramp data
- data busses
- data cables
- data fusion
- data gloves
- data hiding
- data logger
- data matrix
- data member
- data miners
- data mining
- data models
- data object
- data phobic
- data planes
- data points
- data record
- data sheets
- data source
- data sticks
- data stores
- data stream
- data swamps
- data tables
- data trails
- master data
- mobile data
- data brokers
- data centers
- data centres
- data domains
- data dumping
- data fusions
- data loggers
- data manager
- data members
- data munging
- data objects
- data privacy
- data quality
- data records
- data science
- data sources
- data streams
- nuclear data
- primary data
- session data
- data blockers
- data breaches
- data elements
- data managers
- data matrixes
- data modeling
- data recorder
- data recovery
- data scraping
- data snooping
- data wrangler
- data couplings
- data divisions
- data engineers
- data gathering
- data integrity
- data lakehouse
- data poisoning
- data recorders
- data scientist
- data scrapings
- data scrubbing
- data smoothing
- data structure
- data warehouse
- data wranglers
- data wrangling
- empirical data
- plain old data
- reference data
- streaming data
- data governance
- data journalism
- data journalist
- data lakehouses
- data management
- data poisonings
- data processing
- data protection
- data recoveries
- data scientists
- data structures
- data warehouses
- octal data rate
- data controllers
- data integration
- data journalists
- data maintenance
- data protections
- data sovereignty
- data warehousing
- fundamental data
- single data rate
- transaction data
- USB data blocker
- data dictionaries
- data flow diagram
- floating car data
- USB data blockers
- virtual data room
- data flow diagrams
- data transfer rate
Words that rhyme with data
- cassata
- fermata
- arrabbiata
- burrata
- cantata
- carcinomata
- enigmata
- errata
- inamorata
- oblongata
- onnagata
- smegmata
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Questions about data
- What does data mean?
- Data means 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.
- What is data the plural of?
- Data is the plural of datum.
- What part of speech is data?
- Data can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce data?
- Data is pronounced /ˈdɑːtə/ (UK).
Words near data in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: data (page history and authors); Data (page history and authors); datum (page history and authors); mobile data (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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