data
English
Alternative forms
- D (electronics)
Etymology
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)
- enPR: dā'tə, IPA(key): /ˈdeɪtə/
Audio 1 (US) (file) - Homophone: dater (in non-rhotic dialects)
- Rhymes: -eɪtə
- (US, Canada, Ireland)
- enPR: dă'tə, IPA(key): /ˈdætə/, [ˈdæɾə]
Audio 2 (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ætə
- (General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
- enPR: dä'tə, IPA(key): /ˈdɑːtə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: darter (in non-rhotic dialects)
- Rhymes: -ɑːtə
Noun
data (uncountable)

A spreadsheet containing a data table and a graph.
- (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.
- 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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
related terms of data (noun)
- data acquisition
- data analysis
- data domain
- data element
- data entry
- data farming
- data hiding
- data integrity
- data maintenance
- data management
- data mining
- data modeling
- data path, datapath
- data processing
- data recovery
- data set
- data sink
- data source
- data warehouse
Translations
information
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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
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.
Czech
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Declension
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Finnish
(index d)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Declension
Inflection of data (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
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 | |
instructive | — | datoin | |
abessive | datatta | datoitta | |
comitative | — | datoineen |
French
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
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
Latin
Participle
data
References
- data in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Middle Irish
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)
- data
- short form of datateknologi
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
data n (definite singular dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataa)
- data
- short form of datateknologi
Derived terms
Novial
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈda.ta/
Audio (file)
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.
Pronunciation
Noun
data f (plural datas)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdata/, [ˈd̪at̪a]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural datas)
Related terms
Verb
data
Further reading
- “data” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).
Noun
data c
- (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
- (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.
- De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla.
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 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.
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