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DATA MINING
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Data processing using sophisticated data search capabilities and statistical algorithms to discover patterns and correlations in large preexisting databases; a way to discover new meaning in data
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("data mining" is a kind of...):
data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)