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  Data (Linux Reviews)
The Latin plural data is also used as a plural in English, but it is perhaps more commonly treated as a mass noun and used in the singular, at least in day-to-day usage.
Such data are typically further processed by a human or input into a computer, stored and processed there, or transmitted (output) to another human or computer.
Raw data is a relative term; data processing commonly occurs by stages, and the "processed data" from one stage may be considered the "raw data" of the next.
linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Data   (710 words)

  
  Data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Latin plural data is also used as a plural in English, but it is also commonly treated as a mass noun and used in the singular.
Raw data is a relative term; data processing commonly occurs by stages, and the "processed data" from one stage may be considered the "raw data" of the next.
http://www.answers.com/topics/data - discussion of the correctness of using data as a singular or plural ("data is" or "data are")
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Data   (624 words)

  
 Data - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
In English, the word datum is still used in the general sense of "something given", and more specifically in cartography, geography, geology, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing to mean a reference point, reference line, or reference surface.
Data on their own may have no meaning, and only when contextualized (perhaps through interpretation by some kind of data processing system) may it take on meaning and become information (see DIKW).
Since knowledge is prerequisite to wisdom, we always want more data and information.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/d/a/t/Data.html   (722 words)

  
 Data Summary
The general definition of data, according to the United States Federal Acquisition Regulations, is "recorded information, regardless of form or the media of which it may be recorded." This definition includes computer software and technical data.
In practice, data is used as both the singular and plural form of the word.
Computationally, data is represented using the binary numbering system, and is organized as various packets of information (bit, nibble, byte, word) so as to be logically interpretable to the machine and the operator.
www.bookrags.com /Data   (1046 words)

  
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The Latin plural data is also used as a plural in English, but it is also commonly treated as a mass noun and used in the singular.
However, given the variety and irregularity of English plural constructions, there seem to be no grounds for arguing that data is incorrect as a singular mass noun in English.
A similar, earlier term for metadata is "ancillary data." The prototypical example of metadata is the library catalog, which is a description of the contents of books.
www.algebra.com /~pavlovd/wiki/Data   (573 words)

  
 Data (disambiguation) Encyclopedia Articles @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Data, an android character in the Star Trek universe.
Data, a dance record label by the Ministry of Sound famed for one-off dance records.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Data_(disambiguation)   (283 words)

  
 Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It took several years for variable data printing to be accepted and recognized as one of the greatest attributes that the printing industry has.
Etymology the word data is the plural of latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, "to give", hence "something was the dedomena (in latin, data).
National oceanographic data center national oceanographic data center together with the national climatic data center (ncdc) and the national geophysical data center (ngdc), the national oceanographic data center (nodc) is one of the national
www.creativedataservices.com /info/data.html   (771 words)

  
 Into the Core: Intel's next-generation microarchitecture: Page 8
There's a simple reason why out-of-order processors must first put instructions back in program order before officially writing their results out to some form of programmer-visible memory (the register file or main memory): you can't modify a memory location until you're sure that all of the previous instructions that read that location have completed execution.
Intel's memory disambiguation technology attempts to identify instances of false aliasing, so that in instances where the memory accesses are not aliased a load can actually execute before a store's destination address becomes available.
In cases where Core's memory disambiguation algorithm guesses wrongly, the pipeline stalls and any operations that were dependent on the erroneous load are flushed and restarted once the correct data has been (re)loaded from memory.
arstechnica.com /articles/paedia/cpu/core.ars/8   (1201 words)

  
 Tape Data Recovery History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Data recovery is a wide concept, that has reference in many ways, to extract data of a damaged or inaccessible magnetic medium.
The demand for data recovery has increased exponentially in recent years, for many reasons; untrained user operating new data mediums being a primary factor.
The removal in breakages resulted in less occurrence of data loss and made more easily are to be recovered data that, gave than it a problem.
www.tape-data-recover.com /data-recovery-history.php   (823 words)

  
 Solutions - Technology - Geographic Data Modules
Both GTS and GeoTagger utilize MetaCarta Geographic Data Modules (GDMs), which are knowledge bases utilized to identify and disambiguate geographic references, assign latitude/longitude coordinates, and rank.
GDMs contain disambiguation data, which is used by NLP techniques to rank candidates.
For example, population data is useful in determining the confidence that Paris refers to Paris, France or Paris, Texas.
www.metacarta.com /solutions/technology/geographic-data-modules.html   (299 words)

  
 Trends: To disambiguate "portal," don't use it
Home > Commentary > Trends Archive > To disambiguate "portal," don't use it
The term "portal" is one of the most misused words in the current software marketplace.
However the term portal is more widely used and abused, especially by the press.
www.cmswatch.com /Trends/588-To-disambiguate-%22portal,%22-don't-use-it   (252 words)

  
 Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
DATA raises awareness about crises swamping Africa: unpayable Debts, uncontrolled spread of AIDS, unfair Trade rules which keep Africans poor.
Data mining allows you to find the needles hidden in your haystacks of data.
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www.nationaldatareserve.com /data.html   (170 words)

  
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www.thescripts.com /forum/archive/index.php/f-122.html   (883 words)

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