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Definition of Data processing
1. Noun. (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information.
Specialized synonyms: Administrative Data Processing, Business Data Processing, Adp, Automatic Data Processing, Data Mining, Distributed Data Processing, Remote-access Data Processing, Teleprocessing, List Processing, Multiprocessing, Parallel Processing, Operation, Priority Processing, Real-time Operation, Real-time Processing, Serial Processing, Word Processing
Terms within: Execution, Instruction Execution
Generic synonyms: Processing
Definition of Data processing
1. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Data processing
1. Conversion of crude information into usable or storable form; statistical analysis of data by a computer program. (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Data processing
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1. The Learning Enterprise by Anthony P. Carnevale (1993)
"data processing Personnel he growing importance of data processing has created
a distinctive population for training. Although individual categories of ..."
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