datum
a single piece of information, as a fact, statistic, or code; an item of data.
Philosophy.
any fact assumed to be a matter of direct observation.
any proposition assumed or given, from which conclusions may be drawn.
Also called sense datum. Epistemology. the object of knowledge as presented to the mind.: Compare ideatum.
Surveying, Civil Engineering. any level surface, line, or point used as a reference in measuring elevations.
Surveying. a basis for horizontal control surveys, consisting of the longitude and latitude of a certain point, the azimuth of a certain line from this point, and two constants used in defining the terrestrial spheroid.
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Ransomware gangs regularly target businesses big and small by crippling computers and stealing data, and often come away with multimillion-dollar paydays when victims see no other way out but to pay the ransom.
How a $1 million plot to hack Tesla failed | Patrick O'Neill | August 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn Canada, Ontario recently became the first province to mandate collecting data that includes racial categories for all encounters with the public involving force.
Why some senior officers are making it harder for police departments to fight racism | matthewheimer | August 26, 2020 | FortuneStrictly according to the pay data, if she’s a manager getting paid what other managers are getting paid, superficially there is no problem.
When I look at our data, most of our podcasts are consumed on desktop or laptop, not in cars.
‘We have to grow this responsibly’: Tenderfoot TV co-founder Donald Albright on the podcasting’s bright (but consolidated) future | Pierre Bienaimé | August 25, 2020 | DigidayHer team has since been sending NIH enrollment updates daily, and she said she will share data with NIH as it becomes available.
Trump’s push to approve COVID-19 convalescent plasma treatment could delay efforts to better understand it | Claire Zillman, reporter | August 24, 2020 | Fortune
Beinart is upset with me for asking "what is the point of this datum?"
The shaded rectangles represent the distribution of shear due to the load at C, while no may be termed the datum line of shear.
It is clear, in the first place, that there can be no datum apart from a belief.
The Analysis of Mind | Bertrand RussellWhat he observes is, at the stage of science which he has reached, a datum for his science.
The Analysis of Mind | Bertrand RussellBut in each case it is only the sensation that ought, in strictness, to be called a datum.
The Analysis of Mind | Bertrand RussellEach new datum adds to our knowledge, which cannot run ahead of that which produces it.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik
British Dictionary definitions for datum
/ (ˈdeɪtəm, ˈdɑːtəm) /
a single piece of information; fact
a proposition taken for granted, often in order to construct some theoretical framework upon it; a given: See also sense datum
Origin of datum
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