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data trail

data trail noun: the potentially recoverable traces of data left behind by any activity; the general case, independent of medium, of which a paper trail is (in its literal sense) a medium-specific case.

Noun

data trail (plural data trails)

  1. The potentially recoverable traces of data left behind by any activity; the general case, independent of medium, of which a paper trail is (in its literal sense) a medium-specific case.

Forms of data trail

pluraldata trails

Questions about data trail

What does data trail mean?
Data trail means the potentially recoverable traces of data left behind by any activity; the general case, independent of medium, of which a paper trail is (in its literal sense) a medium-specific case.
What part of speech is data trail?
Data trail is a noun.
What is the plural of data trail?
The plural of data trail is data trails.

Words near data trail in the dictionary

  1. data synchronization
  2. data table
  3. data tables
  4. data terminal equipment
  5. data terminal equipments
  6. data trail
  7. data trails
  8. data transfer object
  9. data transfer objects
  10. data transfer rate
  11. data transfer rates

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