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data quality

data quality noun: the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information, usually described in aspects of completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, and integrity.

Noun

data quality (countable and uncountable, plural data qualities)

  1. The state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information, usually described in aspects of completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, and integrity.
    • These help us deduce and discover rules for improving data quality, among other things. In addition, as will be seen later, all five central aspects of data quality—data consistency, deduplication, accuracy, currency, and information completeness–can be specified in terms of data dependencies.2022, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Foundations of Data Quality Management, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 9

Forms of data quality

pluraldata qualities

Questions about data quality

What does data quality mean?
Data quality means the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information, usually described in aspects of completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, and integrity.
What part of speech is data quality?
Data quality is a noun.
What is the plural of data quality?
The plural of data quality is data qualities.

Words near data quality in the dictionary

  1. data processing
  2. data processing machine
  3. data processing machines
  4. data protection
  5. data protections
  6. data quality
  7. data race
  8. data races
  9. data rate
  10. data rates
  11. data record

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