data set or dataset

data set or dataset definition - telecom
  1. A group of related information comprising separate data elements stored, retrieved, or otherwise organized and treated as a unit, i.e., file.The term largely is used in the mainframe community; others use the term file.
  2. In obsolete (1957) AT&T terminology, modem. See also modem.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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