data point
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈdeɪtə pɔɪnt/
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- economic fundamentals, and no single data point should change that.
- overlapping data points
- data points represent
- last data point
We now have millions of data points from people who have had the vaccine.
- We now have millions of data points from people who have had the vaccine.
- Each launch, each project, each task completed gives you data points that say, hey, I can do this.
- And is that data point clinically meaningful?
- I come back with thousands of of data points and assemble them.
- Having an experimental mindset means seeing failures as data points that you can learn from.
- I think we just need to show some data points for this.
- Like all data, you need more than just one data point.
- So it turns out that all these data points are more or less on...
- So it's a a much larger number of data points process much quicker.
- So, so that's a kind of data point, I guess.
Examples
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In the engineering mode, up to 5,000 data points are obtained and stored during a single test.
Academic text (1996) -
There is some concern about the overlapping data points during Sessions 5, 6, and 7 in Setting 1.
Academic text (1997) -
So it turns out that all these data points are more or less on...
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Each launch, each project, each task completed gives you data points that say, hey, I can do this.
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We have here still two data points, just slightly different notation.
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My group only had one complete data point out of our eight, so that was rather discouraging.
Academic text (2013) -
Having an experimental mindset means seeing failures as data points that you can learn from.
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And is that data point clinically meaningful?
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In the former case, each data point was determined by averaging across all subjects and all games.
Academic text (1992) -
The researchers gathered several data points during the experiment to support their findings.
Synonyms
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8.3
A single piece of information from observation or measurement
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3.7
A single number that gives information about people or things
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an individual item of factual information' is directly compositional from 'data' (information) and 'point' (an individual item or fact), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer the phrase. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common in English and has direct parallels in many other languages, making the construction transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The noun data point comes from the picture on a chart: each piece of information (data) is shown as a small dot or point on the graph. So a data point is 'one fact' or 'one measurement' that people use to study results.