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  1. n. Plural form of datum.

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  • “I will continue to pour my efforts into un-masking further datums from the ruins of the old of course.”

    Darth Sidious: People Person

  • “Then I wondered if anyone else had ever said 'datums'.”

    languagehat.com: A SCREENWRITER TALKS SENSE.

  • “On 'data are', I decided just now that's probably ungrammatical for me, not just over-formal, and if I had to talk about individual datums I'd actually say 'datums'.”

    languagehat.com: A SCREENWRITER TALKS SENSE.

  • “Several map datums were erroneous, which threw the hikers off-track.”

    Data is data, or are they?

  • “It turns up a lot of Google hits, but most of them seem to be dictionary definitions, particularly for what appears to be a specialized sense in the field of geology (with the plural datums).”

    Stupid grammar rules II: data are « Motivated Grammar

  • “There are some who claim that sin and karma are datums that one accepts as part of a religious package, and thus mutually exclusive.”

    Bono on karma and grace

  • “Assume further, just for the purpose of being extreme w.r.t. “missing data”, that no two datums are from the same location.”

    Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit

  • “Element Mi,j contains all datums, if any,ÂÂfor dates i and j, with i preceding j.”

    Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit

  • “ÂÂAssume that the only data we have is a collection of “datums”, where each datum contains (a) a pair of dates, (b) the “temperature”ÂÂmeasured on each of those two dates, and (c) the location (station) making those two measurements.”

    Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit

  • “Instead of infoboxes and templates for tabulated datums, as Wikipedia uses, Tinfinger will focus purely on the sentence as the primary method of communication.”

    Archive 2007-04-01

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