🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

dado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dah-doo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Datum/ˈdeɪ.təm/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Este dado específico mudou o rumo da pesquisa."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A single piece of information or a single statistical observation; a fact (often used in the plural as data).

    "Every single datum collected during the experiment was carefully analyzed for anomalies."
  2. 2

    A fixed starting point, scale, or base point from which measurements or observations can be taken.

    "The surveyor established a precise vertical datum to measure the elevation of the new building."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived directly from Latin, where 'datum' is the neuter singular past participle of 'dare' meaning 'to give' (literally 'that which is given'). It entered English in the 18th century primarily in philosophical and scientific contexts to denote a given fact or premise from which conclusions could be drawn.

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