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datum in American English · 1. a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data · 2. Philosophy. a. · 3. Also called: sense datum ... EnglishDictionary Thesaurus WordLists Grammar EnglishEasyLearningGrammar GrammarPatterns EnglishUsage TeachingResources VideoGuides Conjugations Quiz Englishgrammar Englishcollocations Englishconfusables Englishidioms Englishusage Thematicwordlists English French German Italian Spanish Portuguese Hindi Chinese Korean Definitionof 'datum'    WordFrequency Share× Credits× datum (deɪtəm ,dɑːtəm ) dataCOBUILDAdvancedEnglishDictionary.Copyright©HarperCollinsPublishers Youmayalsolike EnglishQuizConfusables LanguageLover'sBlog FrenchTranslationof'datum' Translateyourtext PronunciationPlaylists Wordoftheday:'regift' NEWfromCollins! EnglishGrammar CollinsApps WordFrequency datuminBritishEnglish (ˈdeɪtəm ,ˈdɑːtəm ) nounWordforms:plural-ta(-tə)1. asinglepieceofinformation;fact 2. apropositiontakenforgranted,ofteninordertoconstructsometheoreticalframeworkuponit;agiven Seealsosensedatum CollinsEnglishDictionary.Copyright©HarperCollinsPublishers WordoriginC17:fromLatin:somethinggiven;seedata WordFrequency datuminAmericanEnglish (ˈdeɪtəm ;ˈdætəm ;British;alsoˈdɑtəm ) nounWordforms:pluralˈdata(deɪtə ;ˈdætə )orˈdatums1.  somethingknownorassumed;informationfromwhichconclusionscanbeinferredseealsodata 2.  arealorassumedthing,usedasabasisforcalculationsormeasurements,asalevel(alsodatumplane)fromwhichelevationsanddepthsaremeasuredinsurveying Webster’sNewWorldCollegeDictionary,4thEdition.Copyright©2010by HoughtonMifflinHarcourt.Allrightsreserved. WordoriginL,whatisgiven,neut.ofdatus:seedate WordFrequency datuminAmericanEnglish (ˈdeitəm,ˈdætəm,ˈdɑːtəm) nounWordforms:pluralfor1–3data(ˈdeitə,ˈdætə,ˈdɑːtə),for4,5datums1. asinglepieceofinformation,asafact,statistic,orcode;anitemofdata 2. Philosophya. anyfactassumedtobeamatterofdirectobservation b. anypropositionassumedorgiven,fromwhichconclusionsmaybedrawn 3. Alsocalled:sensedatumEpistemology theobjectofknowledgeaspresentedtothemindCompareideatum 4. Surveying&CivilEngineering anylevelsurface,line,orpointusedasareferenceinmeasuringelevations 5. Surveying abasisforhorizontalcontrolsurveys,consistingofthelongitudeandlatitudeofacertainpoint,theazimuthofacertainlinefromthispoint,andtwoconstantsusedindefiningtheterrestrialspheroid Mostmaterial©2005,1997,1991byPenguinRandomHouseLLC.Modifiedentries©2019 byPenguinRandomHouseLLCandHarperCollinsPublishersLtd Wordorigin[1640–50;‹L:athinggiven,neut.ptp.ofdaretogive] Examplesof'datum'inasentence datum Theseexampleshavebeenautomaticallyselectedandmaycontainsensitivecontent.Readmore… Thedataalsoshowedthatsomemoreambitiousrentershadmadeoffwithabeehive.Times,SundayTimes(2016)Thetableisbasedonhistoricaldataandtheinformationisnotnecessarilyanindicatorofpresentorfutureperformance.Times,SundayTimes(2016)ItfollowsofficialdatashowingcontinuouseconomicgrowthinthethreemonthstoSeptember.Times,SundayTimes(2016)Thespeedatwhichtheycancollectandprocessdatameansfewerpeopleworkingatthetrack.TheSun(2013)Giltssteadiedafterdatashowedconsumercreditrisingmorestronglythanexpectedbutmortgageapprovalsremainedneardecadelows.Times,SundayTimes(2008)Datawerecollectedbythreemethods.LeeHarveyCriticalSocialResearch(1990)MetalspricesfirmedonthebettereconomicdatafromAmerica.Times,SundayTimes(2010)Officialdatashowsthatlendingisstillfairlystagnant,althoughmortgagelendinghaspickedupfromrecordlowslastyear.Times,SundayTimes(2009) Trendsof datum Viewusagefor: AllYears Last10years Last50years Last100years Last300years Browsealphabetically datum datolite datto Datuk datum datumplane datura daturic AllENGLISHwordsthatbeginwith'D' Relatedtermsof datum datumplane sensedatum tidaldatum Newlyndatum ordnancedatum Viewmorerelatedwords Source DefinitionofdatumfromtheCollinsEnglishDictionary ReadabouttheteamofauthorsbehindCollinsDictionaries. 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