🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

清洗数据

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qīngxǐ shùjù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Munge/mʌndʒ/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"程序员正在编写脚本清洗数据。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To transform or manipulate data, typically through automated scripts, to convert it from one format into another.

    "Data scientists spent hours writing scripts to munge the messy raw logs into a structured database."
  2. 2

    To modify or corrupt data destructively or carelessly.

    "A faulty update script managed to munge all the configuration files on the server."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Originating in computer hacker culture in the early 1980s, 'munge' is likely an acronym or blend of 'Mash Until No Good Exit' or a variant of the dialectal English word 'munch' meaning to chew or crush. Over decades, its meaning shifted from destructive file corruption to the technical process of transforming and cleaning raw data.

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