/ˈdeɪtə;ˈdɑ:tə; US ˈdætə ||; ˈdætə/noun [U] [pl] (used as a plural noun in technical English, when the singular is datum 在术语中用作复数，单数为datum) facts or information 资料: to gather/collect data 搜集资料data capture/retrieval (= ways of storing and looking at information on a computer) （计算机上）数据捕捉／检索data processing 数据处理