data processing

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The storing or processing of data by a computer.

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• noun Any of many techniques in which data is retrieved, stored, classified, manipulated, transmitted and/or reported in such a way as to generate information; especially such processing using computers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information