datum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: da=tum

OXFORD DICTIONARY

datum, n. (pl. data: see DATA as main entry).
1 a piece of information.
2 a thing known or granted; an assumption or premiss from which inferences may be drawn (see sense-datum).
3 a fixed starting-point of a scale etc. (datum-line).

Etymology

L, = thing given, neut. past part. of dare give

THESAURUS

datum

absolute fact, accepted fact, account, acquaintance, actual fact, admitted fact, announcement, article, aspect, axiom, bald fact, bare fact, basis for belief, blue book, body of evidence, briefing, brutal fact, bulletin, case, chain of evidence, circumstance, clue, cold fact, communication, communique, conceded fact, corpus, count, data, demonstrable fact, detail, directory, dispatch, documentation, element, empirical fact, enlightenment, established fact, evidence, exhibit, experience, expertise, facet, fact, fact of experience, factor, facts, factual base, factual information, familiarity, familiarization, gen, general information, given fact, grounds, grounds for belief, guidebook, handout, hard fact, hard information, incidental, incidental information, indication, indisputable fact, inescapable fact, info, information, instance, instruction, intelligence, intimacy, item, item of evidence, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, light, manifestation, mark, material grounds, matter, matter of fact, mention, message, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, muniments, mute witness, naked fact, not guesswork, not opinion, notice, notification, particular, piece of evidence, plain, point, positive fact, postulate, practical knowledge, premises, presentation, private knowledge, privity, promotional material, proof, provable fact, publication, publicity, ratio cognoscendi, reason to believe, regard, release, relevant fact, report, respect, salient fact, self-evident fact, self-knowledge, sidelight, sign, significant fact, simple fact, sober fact, statement, stubborn fact, symptom, technic, technics, technique, the case, the dope, the goods, the know, the nitty-gritty, the scoop, thing, token, transmission, undeniable fact, well-known fact, white book, white paper, word