Dictionary

data point en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A mark on a graph or chart corresponding to a piece of data.
   • Could you make all the yellow data points bigger?
2. (broadly) The datum that the mark represents; a single piece of information.
   • 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. 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
   • Each time a language was recognised, a data point was recorded, and attention was switched to collecting the next data point. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
   • I think the third data point is inaccurate. Let's measure it again.
3. 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.

Forms

Synonyms

datum · fact

Translations (4)

de Datenpunkt (point in chart or graph) · da datapunkt (datum, (ordered set of) measurement(s)) · da datapunkt (point in chart or graph) · de Datenpunkt (datum, (ordered set of) measurement(s))