DATA

[noun] [U + singular or plural verb] - information, esp. facts or numbers, collected for examination and consideration and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and processed by a computerThe data was/were collected by various researchers.Now the data is being transferred from magnetic tape to hard disk.A data bank is a large collection of information which can be searched through quickly, esp. by a computer.The process of data capture is any method of collecting information and then changing it into a form which can be processed by a computer.Data processing is the use of a computer to perform calculations on data.a data-processing bureau