datum

Beinart is upset with me for asking "what is the point of this datum?"

The shaded rectangles represent the distribution of shear due to the load at C, while no may be termed the datum line of shear.

It is clear, in the first place, that there can be no datum apart from a belief.

What he observes is, at the stage of science which he has reached, a datum for his science.

But in each case it is only the sensation that ought, in strictness, to be called a datum.

Each new datum adds to our knowledge, which cannot run ahead of that which produces it.