data-mining

A form of data mining — A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.

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Meanings

noundata-mining (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of data mining.
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