data

• D (electronics)

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

• (UK, Ireland, US)
  • enPR: dā'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtə/

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  • Homophone: dater (in non-rhotic dialects)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə
• (US, Canada, Ireland)
  • enPR: dă'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈdætə/, [ˈdæɾə]

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  • Rhymes: -ætə
• (General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
  • enPR: dä'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːtə/

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  • Homophone: darter (in non-rhotic dialects)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːtə

data

1. plural of datum

data (uncountable)

A spreadsheet containing a data table and a graph.

1. (collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.

   The raw information was processed and placed into a database so the data could be accessed more quickly.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]

   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

2. (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
3. (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
4. (mobile telephony) Digital information such as images or web pages transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than wifi.

   run out of data

• This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. The latter is almost entirely restricted to formal contexts.
• The definition of data in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary and is meant to distinguish data from information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.

• big data
• metadata
• primary data
• raw data

• “data” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data')
• John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum
• johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular

• ADAT, TADA, a tad, adat, ta-da, tada

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

data f (plural dates)

1. date (specific moment in time)

• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data

1. installment, partial payment

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data n pl

1. data

• databáze f
• datový m

data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)

1. datum, data
2. curriculum vitae, résumé

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data

1. Plural form of datum
2. (uncountable) data, information

Though some speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against. This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.

• (plural of datum): datums
• (data): gegevens

• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data

1. data

• data-arkisto
• dataliikenne
• datanlouhinta
• datanomi
• datansiirto
• datansiirtoverkko
• dataprojektori
• datasiirto
• datasiirtolaite
• datasiirtoverkko
• datasähkö
• datatekniikka
• dataverkko
• dataväylä
• metadata

data

1. third-person singular past historic of dater

From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural date)

1. date

• "a {n} giorni data" - within {n} days

data

1. Feminine singular of dato, past participle of dare
2. third-person singular present of datare
3. second-person singular imperative of datare

• databile
• datare
• datario
• datato
• datazione
• dato

• dato / dati

data f (plural dates)

1. date (day number of the month)

data

1. nominative feminine singular of datus
2. nominative neuter plural of datus
3. accusative neuter plural of datus
4. vocative feminine singular of datus
5. vocative neuter plural of datus

datā

1. ablative feminine singular of datus

• data in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

data m

1. sire, father
2. foster father, godfather, guardian
3. sir

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• (foster father): aite

From Latin data, plural of datum.

data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)

1. data
2. short form of datateknologi

• “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin data, plural of datum.

data n (definite singular dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataa)

1. data
2. short form of datateknologi

• “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

data (past datad, active participle datant, passive participle datat)

1. to date (determine the time of origin)

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/

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data f

1. date (the point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)

• data in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.tɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/, /ˈda.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Qual é sua data de nascimento?

   What is your date of birth?

2. (informal) a large quantity

   Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.

data

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of datar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of datar

• IPA^(key): /ˈdata/, [ˈd̪at̪a]

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Synonym: fecha (more common)

• antedata
• datar

• dato

data

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of datar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of datar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of datar.

• “data” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).

data c

1. (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
2. (now nonstandard and colloquial) Alternative form of dator

   Det är fel på datan.

   Something's wrong with the computer.

   • 1966, Olof Johannesson (pen name of Hannes Alfvén), "Sagan om den stora datamaskinen"

     De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla.

     And the first computers were very simple.

• The first definition is rarely inflected, but most often used in its basic form. In the definite form, both neuter (datat) and common gender (datan) forms are used. For the compound indata, Google yields 440,000 hits, but only 2110 for indatan and 1200 for indatat. The Latin singular datum is not used in this sense, because it is already Swedish for date (in the calendar).
• Swedish lacked a good and short word for computer until dator was proposed in 1968. The colloquial "data" was used in the 1960s and is still used colloquially today, eventhough it is considered incorrect by most. Confusingly enough, dator is also the plural of data, and the plural definite forms datorerna/datorna are very similar.