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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electronic device that provides an interface in the transmission of data to a remote station.
- noun A collection of related data records on a computer-readable medium, such as a disk.
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- noun computing a
file ofrelated records on acomputer -readable medium such asdisk , especially one on amainframe computer; adataset - noun telecommunications a
modem (that connects a device such as a teletype to an ordinary telephone) - noun statistics A
set of data to beanalyzed .
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