DATA


Meaning of DATA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ deɪtə ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

You can refer to information as data , especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.

The study was based on data from 2,100 women...

To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.

N-UNCOUNT ; also N-PLURAL

2.

Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program. ( COMPUTING )

You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.

N-UNCOUNT

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