Definition of "data" in английский

noun

1. plural of datum

   • Holonym: data set
   • These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.

noun

1. (collective, computing) A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

   • Data can be sent through email.

2. (collective) Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and is usually structured (such as statistics).

   • Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
   • This data shows that X is correlated with Y.

3. (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).

   • run out of data