data mining

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of data mine

Word forms

data mining data-mining datamining
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