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• n  an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

• One day, goes the tale, a colleague rushed to Hoyle with the incomprehensible datum that variable star Alpha, though 1,000 times larger than star Beta, was pulsing 1,000 times .
• At the datum point, the Forge's planes searched, circling like patient, tireless gulls.
• Well, consider this datum: Junichiro Koizumi, who led Japan from 2001 to 2006, and who in terms of economic-policy terms was the most "American" Prime Minister Japan has ever had .

• data point

News & Articles

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• An App That Uses Geometry To Help You Break Creative Blocks
  First–year undergraduate architect and design majors know the scenario very well. Given a range of flat polygons of different sizes––a circle and triangle or a rhombus and trapezoid––the young student has to find a way to combine them. Each set must illustrate a different visual category, say rhythm or datum, and must do so in a seamless manner. Of course, these early efforts are rarely graceful ...
  Oct. 2, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
• Tiny Datum receives key quality certification
  SANTA ROSA -- Datum Technologies passed another milestone last week. After a year of careful documentation and other qualifying measures the precision machine shop received its AS9100C quality-control certification for ... Read more »
  June 10, 2013 - North Bay Business Journal

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  ...response to questions about Afghanistan, Obama said his drawn-out deliberations over military options there -- unresolved after eight high-level war council meetings -- are focused not on nailing down any specific "datum of...
• William F Buckley Jr in renewamerica.us
  Mr. Bond - this is the salient datum about America,said Mr. Buckley with a sweeping gesture, "not that we bred the aberrant executioner, but that we join you in mourning his death. And if from men like you this is the best we can expect,...
• Jean-Jacques Dordain in Xinhua
  Cassini (spaceship) started to send scientific datum registered by the probe Huygens as its final descent towards Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, on Friday,said Dordain at a news conference.