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raw data

raw data noun: data that has not been analyzed or processed.

Noun

raw data (uncountable)

  1. (data management) Data that has not been analyzed or processed.
    • Do their speakers semantically align supposedly raw data with supposedly raw text (that is, ASCII) and supposedly raw footage (unedited film or video) the way that English speakers do?2013, Lisa Gitelman, editor, Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 11
    • According to Bellinger, that's down to the fact that what's appearing on the Rail Data Marketplace is raw data.2026 April 29, Peter Plisner, “Customer comes first in new survey”, in RAIL, number 1060, page 43

raw data meaning in Tamil

raw data in Tamil

சீர்படா விவரங்கள், முதல் விவரங்கள்

Origin of raw data

Coined in the 1910s, from raw (“unprocessed”) + data.

Questions about raw data

What does raw data mean?
Raw data means data that has not been analyzed or processed.
What is raw data in Tamil?
Raw data in Tamil is சீர்படா விவரங்கள், முதல் விவரங்கள். See Raw data meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is raw data?
Raw data is a noun.

Words near raw data in the dictionary

  1. ravulizumab
  2. raw
  3. raw back
  4. raw bar
  5. raw bars
  6. raw data
  7. raw deal
  8. raw deals
  9. raw dog
  10. raw dogged
  11. raw dogging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raw data (page history and authors); raw data (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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