data structure

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Examples
hash table, linked list, binary tree

data structure (plural data structures)

1. (computer science) Any form of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.

Related terms

• abstract data type
• database
• datafication
• datafy
• data type

Translations

organization of data

• Catalan: estructura de dades f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數據結構 / 数据结构 (shùjù jiégòu)

• Danish: datastruktur
• Dutch: gegevensstructuur, datastructuur (nl) f
• Estonian: andmestruktuur
• Finnish: tietorakenne (fi)
• French: structure de donnée f
• German: Datenstruktur f
• Greek: δομή δεδομένων (el) f (domí dedoménon)
• Hebrew: מבנה נתונים (he) m
• Indonesian: struktur data
• Japanese: データ構造 (でーたこうぞう, dēta kōzō)
• Korean: 자료 구조 (jaryo gujo)
• Macedonian: пода́точна структу́ра (mk) f (podátočna struktúra)
• Norwegian: datastruktur m
• Polish: struktura danych f
• Portuguese: estrutura de dados f
• Romanian: structură de date f
• Russian: структу́ра да́нных (ru) f (struktúra dánnyx)
• Serbo-Croatian: podatkovna struktura f
• Spanish: estructura de datos f
• Swedish: datastruktur (sv) c
• Vietnamese: cấu trúc dữ liệu

Further reading

• data structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia