DATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does data mean? 

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

1. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

data; information

Context example:

statistical data

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)

 Context examples 

Next, they analyzed data recorded while the patients played memory games.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

The day of the week a medical history data was collected.

(Medical History Collection Day, NCI Thesaurus)

Once these data are obtained and analyzed, astronomers may know more about the origin and possibly composition of the object.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

The new data enabled the team to create a higher-quality map of the vortex and its surroundings.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

The amount of time elapsed during the capture of data.

(Acquisition Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers came to the conclusion by analyzing data from 195 countries from 1990 to 2017.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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

(Medical History Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

MSD scientists were instrumental in highlighting how the proteomic genetic data could be used for drug discovery.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)

Virtual reality employs medical images as a foundation to create innovative methods of reviewing and analyzing the data they produce.

(Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, NCI Thesaurus)

An explanatory or critical comment, or other in-context information (e.g., pattern, motif, link), that has been associated with data or other types of information.

(Annotation, NCI Thesaurus)