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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
data /ˈdeɪtə/
▶noun
- 1 facts and statistics used for reference or analysis.
■ Philosophy things known or assumed as facts, making the basis of reasoning.
- 2 the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer.
usage: In Latin, data is the plural of datum and, historically and in specialized scientific fields, it is also treated as a plural in English. In modern non-scientific use, however, it is often treated as a mass noun, similar to a word like information, which cannot normally have a plural and which takes a singular verb. Sentences such as data was collected over a number of years are now widely accepted in standard English.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
datum /ˈdeɪtəm/
▶noun (pl. data) See also data.
- 1 a piece of information.
- 2 an assumption or premise from which inferences may be drawn.
- 3 a fixed starting point of a scale or operation.
– origin C18: from L., lit. ‘something given’.
