Data vs Version - What's the difference?
data | version |
English plurals: Pieces of information.
(uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
A specific form or variation of something.
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A translation from one language to another.
(obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
(medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
(ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
(obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.
* Francis Bacon
As nouns the difference between data and version
is that data is (time) date while version is version.data
English
Alternative forms
* (electronics)Noun
(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Usage notes
* This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from aninternational standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf
Derived terms
* big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw dataReferences
* (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') *Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA*
John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum*
johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular
version
English
Noun
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citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- The version of air into water.