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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Datum \Da"tum\, n.; pl {Data}. [L. See 2d {Date}.] 1. Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. --Priestley. 2. pl (Math.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem. {Datum line} (Surv.), the horizontal or base line from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: datum n : an item of factual information derived from measurement or research [syn: {data point}]
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