| data | Multiple facts (usually but not necessarily empirical) used as a basis for inference, testing, models, etc. The word is plural and takes a plural verb. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| data collection | Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data display | The visual display of data in a man-machine system. An example is a cathode ray tube display in which certain data can be called for from the computer and presented on the screen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data interpretation, statistical | Application of statistical procedures to analyze specific observed or assumed facts from a particular study. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data processing | Conversion of crude information into usable or storable form; statistical analysis of data by a computer program. (05 Mar 2000) |
| database | A structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means. (12 Dec 1998) |
| database management systems | Software designed to store, manipulate, manage, and control data for specific uses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| databases | Organised collections of computer records, standardised in format and content, that are stored in any of a variety of computer-readable modes. They are the basic sets of data from which computer-readable files are created. (12 Dec 1998) |
| databases, bibliographic | Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of references and citations to books, articles, publications, etc., generally on a single subject or specialised subject area. Databases can operate through automated files, libraries, or computer disks. The concept should be differentiated from databases, factual which is used for collections of data and facts apart from bibliographic references to them. (12 Dec 1998) |
| databases, factual | Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialised subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from databases, bibliographic which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dataria | Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor). Origin: LL, fr. L. Datum given. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| datary | 1. An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria. 2. The office or employment of a datary. Origin: LL. Datarius. See Dataria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| date | 1. To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter. 2. To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids. We may say dated at or from a place. "The letter is dated at Philadephia." (G. T. Curtis) "You will be suprised, I don't question, to find among your correspondencies in foreign parts, a letter dated from Blois." (Addison) "In the countries of his jornal seems to have been written; parts of it are dated from them." (M. Arnold) Origin: Cf. F. Dater. See Date. <botany> The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself. This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel. <botany> Date palm, or Date tree, a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See Pholas. Origin: F. Datte, L. Dactylus, fr. Gr, prob. Not the same word as finger, but of Semitic origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| date boil | The lesion occurring in cutaneous leishmaniasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| date fever | Tropical disease caused by a flavivirus (one of the arboviruses), transmitted by mosquitoes. A more serious complication is dengue shock syndrome, a haemorrhagic fever probably caused by an immune complex hypersensitivity after re exposure. (18 Nov 1997) |