Glossario
1
Ciò che è costituito da più elementi interdipendenti, uniti tra loro in modo
organico.
2 (inform.) Insieme dei componenti hardware di un elaboratore.
L'elaborare | elaborazione elettronica dei dati, sistema di analisi e di trattamento di dati che si effettua con macchine elettroniche funzionanti ad altissima velocità sulla base di un programma predisposto; è spesso indicata anche con la sigla ingl. EDP.
1 Ciò che è conosciuto o accertato: i dati di un problema; dati
statistici '
dato di fatto, elemento certo di una situazione.
2 (inform.) Ogni informazione che possa
essere trattata da un elaboratore:
elaborazione elettronica dei dati.
1 Elemento che consente di avere conoscenza di fatti, situazioni
ecc.;
2 (inform.) dato che si affida alla memoria di un elaboratore elettronico
informatica.
s. f. scienza che studia l'informazione e, più specificamente, l'elaborazione dei dati e il loro trattamento automatico mediante elaboratori elettronici.
1 : factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation <the data is plentiful and easily available -- H. A. Gleason, Jr.> <comprehensive data on economic growth have been published -- N. H. Jacoby>.
2 : information output by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful.
Process:
1
a : PROGRESS, ADVANCE <in the process of time> b : something going on
: PROCEEDING.
2 a (1) : a natural phenomenon marked
by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result <the process of growth>
(2) : a natural continuing activity or function <such life processes as breathing>
b : a series of actions or operations conducing to an end; especially : a continuous
operation or treatment especially in manufacture.
Information:
1
: the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence
2
a (1) : knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction (2) :
INTELLIGENCE, NEWS (3) : FACTS, DATA b : the attribute inherent in and communicated
by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as
nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific
effects c (1) : a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer)
representing data (2) : something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture)
which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents
physical or mental experience or another construct d : a quantitative measure
of the content of information; specifically : a numerical quantity that measures
the uncertainty in the outcome of an experiment to be performed.
System:
1 : a regularly interacting or interdependent group
of items forming a unified whole <a number system>: as a (1) : a group
of interacting bodies under the influence of related forces <a gravitational
system> (2) : an assemblage of substances that is in or tends to equilibrium
<a thermodynamic system>
b d : a group of devices or artificial objects or an organization forming a
network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose <a
telephone system> <a heating system> <a highway system> <a
data processing system> e : a major division of rocks usually larger than
a series and including all formed during a period or era f : a form of social,
economic, or political
organization or practice <the capitalist system>.
2 a : an organized or established procedure <the touch system
of typing> b : a manner of classifying, symbolizing, or schematizing <a
taxonomic system> <the decimal system>
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