Datum Definition

dātəm, dătəm, dätəm
data
noun
data
A fact or proposition used to draw a conclusion or make a decision.
American Heritage
Something known or assumed; information from which conclusions can be inferred.
Webster's New World
A real or assumed thing, used as a basis for calculations or measurements, as a level (also datum plane) from which elevations and depths are measured in surveying.
Webster's New World

(plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.

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Other Word Forms of Datum

Noun

Singular:
datum
Plural:
data, datums

Origin of Datum

  • Latin something given from neuter past participle of dare to give dō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin datum.

    From Wiktionary

Datum Sentence Examples

  • In the West the decisions of the great councils have been accepted as a datum.

  • That God is love and that the purpose of His love is the moral organization of humanity in the "Kingdom of God" - this idea, with its immense range of application-.-is applied in Ritschl's initial datum.

  • A third pencil traces an observation line in which a kick can be made at will by pressing any one of the electrical pushes placed about the car, and a fourth draws a datum line.

  • The seal is that of the fisherman's ring, hence the formula of conclusion, "Datum Romae, sub annulo Piscatoris."

  • Sea-level is the assumed mean level of the sea, serving as a datum from which to calculate the elevation of land in surveying.

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Words Starting With

DDADAT

Words Ending With

MUMTUM

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Words Starting With D and Ending With M

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