Data and Record

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Data noun - A collection of factual knowledge about something.

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Record is a synonym for data. In some cases you can use "Record" instead a noun "Data".

Record noun - A relating of events usually in the order in which they happened.

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Data is a synonym for record in account topic. You can use "Data" instead a noun "Record", if it concerns topics such as documentation.

Nearby Words: recorded, recording, recorder, recordist, recordable

old	old data	old record
full	full data	full record
similar	similar data	similar record
current	current data	current record
Other adjectives: original, fake, actual, bad, personal, new, official, latest, visual, existing, historical.

Data Crystals often double as video recorders and Hologram emitters, allowing owners to record, store and project their home movies.

Source: Data Crystal
He's trapped in a graviton ellipse and he continues to record log entries and collect data right up to the point where all the power on his spacecraft fails and he dies.

Source: Series / Star Trek: Voyager
Of particular note is the Adeptus Administratum offices on Holy Terra, where armies of robed scribes carefully record useless census data thousands of years out of date from worlds that don't exist anymore, then file the reports away in the kilometre-high stacks where they will never be read again.

Source: Great Big Library of Everything

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