datum

• That's a true datum, and it reminds me of a score we ought to put on the opposition side of the ledger. —  Analog October 1971
• In itself, the datum was irrelevant, but it broke the spell of illusory certainty. —  Asimov'sSF,March2008
• If so, the datum is analyzable as non-elliptical … —  Literal-Minded
• No-write allocation is a cache policy where only processor reads are cached, thus avoiding the need for write-back or write-through when the old value of the datum was absent from the cache prior to the write. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• In truth he never gets behind the postulate of an all-enveloping tridimensional world; so that he throughout assumes Space as a datum, and his inquiry is an effort to rediscover Space where he has already placed it Let us, however, consider for a moment what can be meant by a sensation of Space. —  Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

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