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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Data points"
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 02:07:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 02:07:26 1985
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> 
> Data and datum are not adjectives.  Thus, it is either "a point of data,"
> or "a datum," not "a data point" [sic].
> 
>   William Ricker

It is quite common in English to use nouns as adjectives:

	automobile tire
	book cover
	hair spray
	ice chest
	   .
	   .
	   .

It is reasonable and correct to use "data point" to mean a point in a set
of data.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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