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raw data

 
(′rö ′dad·ə)

(science and technology) Data that have not been processed; may be in machine-readable form.


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Data that has not been processed in any manner. It often refers to uncompressed text that is not stored in any proprietary format. It may also refer to recently captured data that may have been placed into a database structure, but not yet processed. See ASCII file and native capacity. See also RAW file.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis


 
 

 

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