Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Non-numerical processing (NON-NUMERICAL processing)

Translation
Section	English 228	Arabic 228	Czech 228	German 228	Spanish 228	French 228	Italian 228	Japanese 228	Portuguese 228	Russian 228	Chinese 228
228-1	data entry —input	إدخال البيانات	vstup dat	Dateneingabe —Input	entrada de datos	entrée des données	inserimento dei dati	データのエントリー —入力	entrada de dados	Ввод данных	数据输入
228-2	on line	إتصال المباشر	dialogově	Online	línea	en ligne	direttamente in linea	オンライン	conectado	Неавтономные (устройства)	联机
228-3		اقتناص البيانات		Datenerfassung	captación de datos	saisie des données	raccolta dei dati
228-4	numerical processing	معالجة عددية	numerické zpracování	numerische Verarbeitung	procesamiento numérico	traitement numérique	elaborazione numerica	数値処理	processamento numérico	Численная обработка	数值处理
228-5	non-numerical processing	معالجة غفير عددية	nenumerické zpracování	nichtnumerische Verarbeitung	procesamiento no numérico	traitement non numérique	elaborazione non numerica	非数値処理	processamento não-numérico	Нечисленная обработка	非数值处理
228-6	processed results —output	نتائج المعالجة	zpracované výsledky	verarbeitetes Ergebnis —Output	resultados del procesamiento	résultat du traitement	risultati dell’elaborazione	処理結果 —アウトプット	resultados processados —saídas	Результаты	处理结果 —输出
228-7	plotter	محطة الراسمة	grafický terminál	Plotter	unidad graficadora	terminal graphique	plotter	プロッター	plotter	Плотер —Прибор для построения кривых	绘图机

Any information processed in a computer (225-2) undergoes three main phases. First, data entry ¹ or input ¹ which may be done by using an on line ² device such as a keyboard console (227-8). Data which is already stored in the computer may be accessed from either central memory (226-2) or from one of the mass storage devices (226-3) and used as input data. This is part of the data collection ^3★ which goes from extraction (220-1) to the transcription on an electronic medium, through validity checks (221-7) and consistency checks (221-8) that can be made during data entry when working on line. The second phase, processing (220-2), is divided into two main types: numerical processing ⁴ and non-numerical processing ⁵. Statistical or arithmetic computations are normally the operations contained in the former while data manipulation operations are the focus in the latter. In a third phase, occasionally referred to as output phase, the processed results ⁶ or output ⁶ may be printed out on the line printer (227-6) or saved as a file on a mass storage device (226-3) for further processing. Results may also be diverted to a plotter ⁷ to obtain processed results in the form of a graph or a figure. More...