noun
(computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information (Freq. 1)
• Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing
• Hypernyms: ↑processing
• Hyponyms:
↑administrative data processing, ↑business data processing, ↑automatic data processing, ↑ADP, ↑data mining, ↑distributed data processing, ↑remote-access data processing, ↑teleprocessing, ↑list processing, ↑multiprocessing, ↑parallel processing, ↑operation, ↑priority processing, ↑real-time processing, ↑real-time operation, ↑serial processing, ↑word processing
• Part Meronyms: ↑execution, ↑instruction execution
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noun [noncount]
: the process of putting information into a computer so that the computer can organize it, change its form, etc.
— often used before another noun
data-processing software
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a series of actions that a computer performs on data to produce an output
Useful english dictionary. 2012.