Conn vs. Data

Connnoun

The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."

‘The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when she reached the bridge.’;

Datanoun

plural of datum

Connverb

(transitive) To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).

‘The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.’;

Datanoun

Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.

‘The raw information was processed and placed into a database so the data could be accessed more quickly.’;

Connverb

See Con, to direct a ship.

Datanoun

Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.

Connverb

conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane

Datanoun

(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

Datanoun

(mobile telephony) Digital information such as images or web pages transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than wifi.

‘run out of data’;

Data

See Datum.

Data

a collection of facts, observations, or other information related to a particular question or problem; as, the historical data show that the budget deficit is only a small factor in determining interest rates.

Data

information, most commonly in the form of a series of binary digits, stored on a physical storage medium for manipulation by a computer program. It is contrasted with the program which is a series of instructions used by the central processing unit of a computer to manipulate the data. In some conputers data and execuatble programs are stored in separate locations.

Datanoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

‘statistical data’;

Data

Data are units of information, often numeric, that are collected through observation. In a more technical sense, data are a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables about one or more persons or objects, while a datum (singular of data) is a single value of a single variable.Although the terms and are often used interchangeably, these terms have distinct meanings.

‘data’; ‘information’;