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DATA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

Example:

statistical data

Synonyms:

data; information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("data" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "data"):

accounting data (all the data (ledgers and journals and spreadsheets) that support a financial statement; can be hard copy or machine readable)

metadata (data about data)

raw data (unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Any device that can hold data in machine-readable format.

(Memory Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A term used to describe the state or condition of medical history data.

(Medical History Status, NCI Thesaurus)

This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), and radio data from the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (pink).

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

An identifier that describes the relative position of medical history data within a series.

(Medical History Sequence, NCI Thesaurus)

A study design which includes a prospectively planned opportunity for modification of one or more specified aspects of the study design and/or hypotheses based on analysis of data, usually interim data.

(Adaptive Design, NCI Thesaurus)

"I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to think, and I have no data on which to found a conjecture."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These are submitted in addition to the data tabulation datasets.

(Analysis Dataset Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to the analysis of a dataset.

(Analysis Dataset Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The bank has an associated database that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained.

(AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank, NCI Thesaurus)

A record of data captured about device logging functions, error logs, keystroke logs and device alarm history.

(Analysis of Data Log, NCI Thesaurus)