1.Knowledge derived from study, experience,
or instruction.
2.Knowledge of a specific event or situation;
intelligence. See Synonyms at knowledge.
3.A collection of facts or data: statistical
information.
4.The act of informing or the condition
of being informed; communication of knowledge: Safety instructions
are provided for the information of our
passengers.
5.Computer Science. A non-accidental
signal or character used as an input to a computer or communications
system.
6.A numerical measure of the uncertainty
of an experimental outcome.
7.Law. A formal accusation of a crime
made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment.
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def·i·ni·tion (df-nshn)
n. Abbr. def.
1.
a.A statement conveying fundamental character.
b.A statement of the meaning of a word,
phrase, or term, as in a dictionary entry.
2.The act or process of stating a precise
meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning.
3.
a.The act of making clear and distinct:
a definition of one's intentions.
b.The state of being closely outlined
or determined: “With the drizzle, the trees in the little clearing
had lost definition” (Anthony Hyde).
c.A determination of outline, extent,
or limits: the definition of a President's authority.
4.
a.The clarity of detail in an optically
produced image, such as a photograph, effected by a combination of
resolution and contrast.
b.The degree of clarity with which a
televised image or broadcast signal is received.
[Middle English diffinicioun, from Old
French definition, from Latin dfnti-, dfntin-
from dfntus, past participle of dfnre,
to define; see define.]
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da·ta (dt, dt, dät)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
1.Factual information, especially information
organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
2.Computer Science. Numerical or other
information represented in a form suitable for processing by
computer.
3.Values derived from scientific experiments.
4.Plural of datum (n., sense 1).
pl.n. attributive.
Often used to modify another noun: data communications; data updates.
[Latin, pl. of datum; see datum.]
Usage Note: Data originated as the plural
of Latin datum, “something given,” and many maintain that it
must still be treated as a plural form.
The New York Times, for example, adheres to the traditional rule in
this headline: “Data Are Elusive on the
Homeless.” But while data comes from a Latin plural form, the
practice of treating data as a plural
in English often does not correspond to its meaning, given an
understanding of what counts as data
in modern research. We know, for example, what “data on the
homeless” would consist ofsurveys, case
histories, statistical analyses, and so forthbut it would be a
vain exercise to try to sort all of these
out into sets of individual facts, each of them a “datum” on the
homeless. (Does a case history count
as a single datum, or as a collection of them? Is a correlation between
rates of homelessness and unemployment
itself a datum, or is it an abstraction over a number of data?) Since
scientists and researchers think of data
as a singular mass entity like information, it is entirely natural that
they should have come to talk about it
as such and that others should defer to their practice. Sixty percent of
the Usage Panel accepts the use of data
with a singular verb and pronoun in the sentence Once the data is
in, we can begin to analyze it. A still
larger number, 77 percent, accepts the sentence We have very little
data on the efficacy of such programs,
where the singularity of data is implicit in the use of the quantifier
very little (contrast the oddness of
We have very little facts on the efficacy of such programs).
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mem·o·ry (mm-r)
n., pl. mem·o·ries.
1.The mental faculty of retaining and
recalling past experience.
2.The act or an instance of remembering;
recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory.
3.All that a person can remember: It
hasn't happened in my memory.
4.Something remembered: pleasant childhood
memories.
5.The fact of being remembered; remembrance:
dedicated to their grandparents' memory.
6.The period of time covered by the remembrance
or recollection of a person or group of persons: within
the
memory of humankind.
7.Biology. Persistent modification of
behavior resulting from an animal's experience.
8.Computer Science.
a.A unit of a computer that preserves
data for retrieval.
b.Capacity for storing information: two
million bytes of memory.
9.Statistics. The set of past events
affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
10.The capacity of a material, such as
plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
[Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French
from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful; see (s)mer-1 in
Indo-European Roots.]
Synonyms: memory, remembrance, recollection,
reminiscence.
These nouns denote the act or an instance
of remembering, or something remembered. Memory is the faculty of retaining
and
reviving impressions or recalling past
experiences: He has a bad memory for facts and figures. “Even memory is not
necessary for
love” (Thornton Wilder). The word also
applies to something recalled to the mind, a sense in which it often suggests
a personal,
cherished quality: “My earliest memories
were connected with the South” (Thomas B. Aldrich). Remembrance most often denotes
the process or act of recalling: The
remembrance of his humiliation was almost too painful to bear. Recollection
is sometimes
interchangeable with memory: My recollection
of the incident differs from yours. Often, though, the term suggests a deliberate,
concentrated effort to remember: After
a few minutes' recollection she produced the answer. Reminiscence is the act
or process of
recollecting past experiences or events
within one's personal knowledge: “Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences
of past gaiety” (Charlotte Brontë).
When the word refers to what is remembered, it may involve the sharing of the
recollection with
another or others: They spent some time
in reminiscence before turning to the business
that had brought them together.
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doc·u·men·ta·tion
(dky-mn-tshn)
n.
1.
a.The act or an instance of the supplying
of documents or supporting references or records.
b.The documents or references so supplied.
2.The collation, synopsizing, and coding
of printed material for future reference.
3.Computer Science. The organized collection
of records that describe the structure, purpose, operation,
maintenance, and data requirements for
a computer program.
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gath·er (gthr)
v. gath·ered, gath·er·ing,
gath·ers.
v. tr.
1.To cause to come together; convene.
2.
a.To accumulate (something) gradually;
amass.
b.To harvest or pick: gather flowers;
gather wild foods.
3.To gain by a process of gradual increase:
gather speed.
4.To collect into one place; assemble.
5.To pick up and enfold: gathered the
kittens into her arms.
6.Printing. To arrange (signatures) in
sequence for bookbinding.
7.
a.To draw into small folds or puckers,
as by pulling a thread through cloth.
b.To contract and wrinkle (the brow).
8.To draw about or bring (one thing)
closer to something else: gathered the shawl about my shoulders.
9.To conclude; infer: I gather that a
decision has not been reached.
10.To summon up; muster: gathered up
his courage.
11.To attract or be a center of attraction
for: The parade gathered a large crowd.
v. intr.
1.To come together in a group; assemble.
2.To accumulate: Dark clouds are gathering.
3.To grow or increase by degrees.
4.To come to a head, as a boil; fester.
5.To forage for wild foodstuffs.
n.
1.
a.The act or an instance of gathering.
b.A quantity gathered.
2.A small fold or pucker made by gathering
cloth.
[Middle English getheren, gaderen, from Old English gadrian; see ghedh- in Indo-European Roots.]
gather·er n.
Synonyms: gather, collect, assemble,
congregate, accumulate, amass.
These verbs mean to bring or come together
in a group or mass. Gather is the most general term and
therefore the most widely applicable:
The tour guide gathered the visitors in the hotel lobby. A group of
students gathered in front of the administration
building to demand divestiture. I gathered sticks as
kindling for the fire. Clouds gather
before a thunderstorm. Collect is often interchangeable with gather: A
proctor will collect (or gather) the
examination papers at the end of the hour. Tears collected (or
gathered) in her eyes. Frequently, however,
collect refers to the careful selection of like or related things
that become part of an organized whole:
collects antiques; collected stamps. Assemble in all of its senses
implies that the persons or things involved
have a definite and usually close relationship. With respect to
persons the term suggests convening out
of common interest or purpose: Assembling an able staff was more
difficult than raising the funds to finance
the venture. The new legislature will assemble in January.
With respect to things assemble implies
gathering and fitting together components, as of a structure or
machine: The curator is devoting time
and energy to assembling an interesting exhibit of Stone Age
artifacts. Congregate refers chiefly
to the coming together of a large number of persons or animals: After
the lecture the physicians congregated
in the library to compare notes. Accumulate applies to the
increase of like or related things over
an extended period: They gradually accumulated enough capital to
be financially secure after retirement.
Old newspapers and magazines are accumulating in the basement.
Amass refers to the collection or accumulation
of things, especially valuable things, to form an imposing
quantity: families who amassed great
fortunes in the days before income tax.
See also synonyms at reap.
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