only a very limited meaning can be attached to “1234” unless you know that it occupies the “employee number” field). That characteristic gives rise to the popular fallacy that “data is meaningless”. [Computer and Information Sciences] 
n., Numbers, characters, images or other methods of recording that represent values that can be stored, processed, and transmitted
by electronic systems. [General Dictionaries] 
data element 
n.,
 A discrete component of data. [General Dictionaries] 
n., The basic unit of inf