Datum

[Da·tum]

One item of information, one fact, one statistic, is on its own a datum, the singular form of the more commonly used "data." If you can't find one single datum to support your theory, it's time for another theory.

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Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Noun
an item of factual information derived from measurement or research


n.
Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

n.
The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.


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.
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.

Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Misspelled Form

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