"data trail" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: data trails [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} data trail (plural data trails)
  1. The potentially recoverable traces of data left behind by any activity; the general case, independent of medium, of which a paper trail is (in its literal sense) a medium-specific case.
    Sense id: en-data_trail-en-noun-5rOSjUZr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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