plural of datum / (collectively, uncountable) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.

(computer science) Any way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.

(databases) A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.

(computing) A file of related records on a computer-readable medium such as disk, especially one on a mainframe computer; a dataset.

(computing) a glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment

(computing) A collection of data, from a variety of sources, organized to provide useful guidance to an organization's decision-makers.

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.

(programming) A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them.

(computing) a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals used in a transmission

Data derived from reliable measurement or observation.