datum is sometimes used as the singular form of data. datum 有时用作 data 的单数形式。
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[N-UNCOUNT; also N-PLURAL 不可数名词;复数名词](尤指可用于分析的)资料,材料,数据(美国英语中通常用作复数名词;在专业或正式的英国英语中有时用作复数名词,有时用作不可数名词) You can refer to information as
data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English,
data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English,
data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
The study was based on data from 2,100 women...
这项研究基于从 2,100 名女性那里收集来的资料。
...the latest year for which data is available...
有可利用资料的最近的年份
To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
为处理这些数据,医院购入了一些大型主机。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](可存储并为计算机程序所用的)数据 Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program.