mission, interpretation or processing manually or
automatically. [Archives] 
n., The symbolic representation of facts or ideas, especially when in the form in which it was originally collected and is
unanalyzed. [Archives] 
n., Information, in any form, on which computer programs operate. The distinction between program (instructions) and data is a
fundamental one in computing (see von Neumann machine). It is in this fundamental sense that the word is used in terms such as
data, data break, data bus, data c