data point

See also: datapoint

English

Alternative forms

Noun

data point (plural data points)

  1. A mark on a graph or chart corresponding to a piece of data.
    Could you make all the yellow data points bigger?
  2. (by extension) The datum that the mark represents.
    • 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:
      Each time a language was recognised, a data point was recorded, and attention was switched to collecting the next data point.
    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.

Synonyms

  • (data represented by a mark): datum

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