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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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pl.

Data

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[L. See 2d

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.

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.

Noun.

Something given or admitted.

DATU'RA, n. A vegeto-alkali obtained from Datura stramonium.

DAUB, v.t.