(1) The first name given to the information technology (IT) industry. From the early 1900s to the 1960s, it meant feeding punch cards into tabulating machines. Thereafter, data processing referred to computer processing, and eventually IT became the industry term. See punch card.
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Data processing is defined as the converting of information into something that is understood by a computer.
An example of data processing is typing sales numbers into an inventory control software program.
The rapid recording and handling of large amounts of information, as business data, by means of mechanical or, esp., computer equipment.
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Data-processing Sentence Examples
The page also links to raw data files to enable institutions to perform their own data processing.
Off-line data processing Off-line data processing is to be performed in an integrated data processing pipeline.
In addition, changes in measurement technologies and data processing procedures imply that few hydrometric time series can be considered truly homogeneous.
The Laboratory has an on-going program developing techniques such as the shearing interferometer, including data processing methods.
Any time you can move data processing from intellects to CPUs, you get vast improvements in efficiency.