AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does automatic data processing mean? 

• AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING (noun)
  The noun AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING has 1 sense:

1. data processing by a computer

  Familiarity information: AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Data processing by a computer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

ADP; automatic data processing

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

data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)

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

EDP; electronic data processing (automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes)

IDP; integrated data processing (automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system)