DATUM (data)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: data   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does datum mean? 

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

1. an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An item of factual information derived from measurement or research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

data point; datum

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

information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)

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

indication; meter reading; reading (a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument)

statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)

 Context examples 

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)

The use of anonymised data and samples does not allow for clinical monitoring, subject follow-up or the addition of new data.

(Anonymised Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Medical History Status, NCI Thesaurus)

Monitor has medical authority for the checking data and documentation from the trial and for the evaluation of its safety aspects.

(Medical Monitor, NCI Thesaurus)

And new research using NASA satellite data shows that tracking vegetation from space can help wildlife managers predict when does will give birth to fawns.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

Data of microarray experiments generated from the animal model.

(Microarray Data, 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 process that analyzes data from different studies done about the same subject.

(Meta-analysis, NCI Dictionary)

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

(Memory Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)