data
English
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Alternative forms
- D (electronics)
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.
Pronunciation
- (UK, Ireland, US)
- (US, Canada, Ireland)
- (General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
Noun
data
Noun
data (uncountable)
- (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.
- (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
- (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
- (mobile telephony) Digital information such as images or web pages transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than wifi.
- run out of data
Usage notes
- 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.
- In geodetic contexts, the word is used exclusively as an uncountable with the singular datum having the plural datums to replace it.
- 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.[1]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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References
- “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
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural dates)
- date (specific moment in time)
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Noun
data
Czech
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
data n pl
Declension
Related terms
Danish
Noun
data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
data
- (deprecated template usage) Plural form of datum
- (uncountable) data, information
Usage notes
Though some speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against.[2][3][4] This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.
Synonyms
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Noun
data
Declension
Inflection of data (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | data | datat | ||
genitive | datan | datojen | ||
partitive | dataa | datoja | ||
illative | dataan | datoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | data | datat | ||
accusative | nom. | data | datat | |
gen. | datan | |||
genitive | datan | datojen datainrare | ||
partitive | dataa | datoja | ||
inessive | datassa | datoissa | ||
elative | datasta | datoista | ||
illative | dataan | datoihin | ||
adessive | datalla | datoilla | ||
ablative | datalta | datoilta | ||
allative | datalle | datoille | ||
essive | datana | datoina | ||
translative | dataksi | datoiksi | ||
abessive | datatta | datoitta | ||
instructive | — | datoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
- data-arkisto
- dataliikenne
- datanlouhinta
- datanomi
- datansiirto
- datansiirtoverkko
- dataprojektori
- datasiirto
- datasiirtolaite
- datasiirtoverkko
- datasähkö
- datatekniikka
- dataverkko
- dataväylä
- metadata
French
Verb
data
- third-person singular past historic of dater
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural date)
Derived terms
- "a {n} giorni data" - within {n} days
Verb
data
- Feminine singular of dato, past participle of dare
- third-person singular present of datare
- second-person singular imperative of datare
Related terms
See also
Ladin
Noun
data f (plural dates)
- date (day number of the month)
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) data
- nominative feminine singular of datus
- nominative neuter plural of datus
- accusative neuter plural of datus
- vocative feminine singular of datus
- vocative neuter plural of datus
Participle
(deprecated template usage) datā
References
- data in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle Irish
Noun
data m
Inflection
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Synonyms
- (foster father): aite
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin data, plural of datum.
Noun
data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)
- data
- short form of datateknologi
Derived terms
References
- “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin data, plural of datum.
Noun
data n (definite singular dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataa)
- data
- short form of datateknologi
Derived terms
References
- “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Novial
Verb
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- to date (determine the time of origin)
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
data f
- date (the point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)
Declension
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.
Pronunciation
Noun
data f (plural datas)
- date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
- Qual é sua data de nascimento?
- What is your date of birth?
- (informal) a large quantity
- Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.
Etymology 2
Verb
data
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural datas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
data
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of datar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of datar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of datar.
Further reading
- “data”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Etymology 1
Noun
data (n class, plural data)
- data (information, especially in a scientific or computational context)
Etymology 2
Verb
-data (infinitive kudata)
Conjugation
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Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).
The sense ”computer” is a clipping of datamaskin.
Noun
data c
- (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
- (colloquial, proscribed) Alternative form of dator (“computer”)
- 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.
- The first computers were indeed very simple.
Usage notes
- 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 used for ”date (in the calendar)”.
- Swedish lacked a good and short word for computer until dator was proposed in 1967. The colloquial data was used in the 1960s and is still used colloquially today, but is usually proscribed. The form dator is also the plural of data, and the plural definite forms datorerna/datorna are very similar.
Declension
Declension of data | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | data | datan | dator | datorna |
Genitive | datas | datans | dators | datornas |
Derived terms
References
- data in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan[5], Swedish Language Council, 2019 December 28 (last accessed)
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