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noun

Datum n. (pl. data)

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."

A single piece of information; a fact; especially a piece of information obtained by observation or experiment; used mostly in the plural.

pl. (Math.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.

(Surveying) A point, line, or level surface used as a reference in measuring elevations.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... adveneram, amicorum me suave collegium in salum rursus cogitationis expressit, postulans ut aliqua quae tam in libris sacris, quam in saecularibus abstrusa compereram de animae substantia, vel de ejus virtutibus aperirem, cui datum est tam ingentium rerum secreta reserare: addens nimis ineptum esse si eam per quam plura cognoscimus, quasi a nobis alienam ignorare patiamur, dum ad anima sit utile nosse qua sapimus' ...

— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... "I will be twenty-four next week and your arithmetic is still screwy; and here is another datum you got wrong. I ...

— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell

... sunt ii quibus improbe datum est, quam illi quibus injuste ademptum est, idcirco plus etiam valent? Non enim numero haec judicantur, sed pondere. Quam autem habet aequitatem, ut agrum multis annis, aut etiam saeculis ante possessum, ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... semel quorundam fratrum enormes excessus, ut fr. Thomas de Celano scribit, et malum exemplum per eos secularibus datum." Laur. MS., f^o 13b. The passage which follows evidently refers to 2 Cel., 3, ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... being the hand-maid of religion, would be unworthy the attention of the most unlettered man. Hence he would recall reason from its lofty flights, and direct its attention solely to self-consciousness. Only by studying the powers of the mind as a datum, he held, can any positive results be gained. Using his own illustration of his work, he would do for philosophy what Copernicus had done for astronomy—reverse metaphysics by referring classes of ideas to inner, which before had been referred ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

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