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mega-data

mega-data is the alternative form of megadata.

Meaning of megadata

Noun

megadata (uncountable)

  1. Extremely large collections of electronically-stored data.
    • Experience with "megadata," large collections of remote objects presented to users, suggests that users typically view large collections of icons, but open only a few of them for detailed inspection.1995, David Hunter Collins, Designing Object-oriented User Interfaces, page 410
  2. (more specifically) Large collections of personal data that are gathered and maintained by companies for commercial exploitation.
    • The multiple agencies (state, non-state and hybrid) engaged in surveillance and the various processes, forms and purposes of surveillance that is brought together through information sharing networks or other means (from the sale of access to databases through to secret court orders demanding...2013, M.G. Michael, Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants, page 160

Questions about mega-data

What is mega-data the alternative form of?
Mega-data is the alternative form of megadata.

Words near mega-data in the dictionary

  1. mega-cap
  2. mega-caps
  3. mega-church
  4. mega-churches
  5. mega-colossal
  6. mega-data
  7. mega-donor
  8. mega-donors
  9. mega-Earth
  10. mega-galleries
  11. mega-gallery

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