1940 1/1 The slide rule operation of the invention insures that each data element..spends a predetermined time in a particular data group or field on the display board.
1978 F. B. Baker iii. 70 The data base record for each student can contain up to roughly 2,000 data elements.
2008 M. Alexander ii. 28 Flat files are data repositories organized by row and column. Each row corresponds to a set of data elements, or a record.