English noun: data processing |
1. | data processing (process) (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
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| Broader (hypernym) | processing |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | administrative data processing, ADP, automatic data processing, business data processing, data mining, distributed data processing, list processing, multiprocessing, operation, parallel processing, priority processing, real-time operation, real-time processing, remote-access data processing, serial processing, teleprocessing, word processing |
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| Part holonym | execution, instruction execution |
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| Domain category | computer science, computing |
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