DATA PROCESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does data processing mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATA PROCESSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure)

Meronyms (parts of "data processing"):

execution; instruction execution ((computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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

administrative data processing; business data processing (data processing in accounting or business management)

ADP; automatic data processing (data processing by a computer)

data mining (data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data)

distributed data processing; remote-access data processing; teleprocessing (data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities)

list processing (processing data that is given in the form of chained lists)

multiprocessing; parallel processing (simultaneous processing by two or more processing units)

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

priority processing (data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities)

real-time operation; real-time processing (data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process)

serial processing (sequential processing by two or more processing units)

word processing (rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing)

 Context examples 

The use of data processing systems to analyze, enhance, interpret or display digital images.

(Image Processing, NCI Thesaurus)

This work told them which types of planets were overcounted and which were undercounted by the Kepler team’s data processing methods.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

Data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).

(Computer Operation, NCI Thesaurus)

An artifact resulting from data processing steps after capture of an image.

(Image Processing Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

Data processing largely performed by automatic means.

(Computer Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)