data point
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See also: datapoint
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]data point (plural data points)
- A mark on a graph or chart corresponding to a piece of data.
- Could you make all the yellow data points bigger?
- (by extension) The datum that the mark represents; a single piece of information.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 4:
- Each time a language was recognised, a data point was recorded, and attention was switched to collecting the next data point.
- 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times[1]:
- Test scores are just one imperfect data point, and none of this is to suggest Seattle schools don’t have problems. These scores still show a decline, and more than 3,000 students have left.
- A socket for connecting to a phone line or other electronic network.
- I sat on the end of the row so I could use the data point.
Translations
[edit]datum, (ordered set of) measurement(s)
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point in chart or graph
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Further reading
[edit]- “data point”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.