datasetn.
/ˈdeɪtəsɛt/, /ˈdɑːtəsɛt/, U.S. /ˈdædəˌsɛt/, /ˈdeɪdəˌsɛt/ 1. A collection of data.
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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun]
datums1940
dataset1958
1958 Western Polit. Q. 11 499 Since three data-sets were utilized, guide-lines..were defined in terms of the proportion of three cases in which a certain correspondence was observed.
1985 New Scientist 28 Nov. 66/1 The single ‘anomalous’ event in the original dataset..comes from an area of poor seismic coverage.
1992 Pixel Mar. 22/1 Volume rendering..involved assigning a color and an opacity to each point in a dataset.
2009 Times (Nexis) 18 Nov. 30 A website..home to more than 1,100 datasets ranging from traffic counts on the road network, through reference data on schools to the Farm Survey.
2. Chiefly Computing. = modem n. Now historical.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > modem
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modem1958
coupler1968
internal modem1979
1958 Bell Lab. Rec. 36 222 (heading) Transistors in data sets.
1976 Business Week (Nexis) 9 Feb. 36 Design innovations in data sets linking computers with phone lines.
2003 G. W. Brock Second Information Revol. iv. 78 The first data sets (Bell's term for the device that translated between analog and digital signals, now called a modem) contained 370 vacuum tubes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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