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"Data" refers to a set of information organized in a way that facilitates communication of the information to a receiver. The receiver may be a person or animal or an electronic component, circuit, assembly, or the like. Data can be represented as signal or values represented in any numbering and/or alphabet system. Data can be stored in one representation in an analog or digital format and conveyed to a receiver in another format suitable for the receiver to interpret and understand the data. Data can include both data that stores specific information as well as metadata which is data that describes the data that stores the specific information.

Added by DJM 2 2022