In telecommunication, the term automatic data processing (ADP) has the following meanings:
- An interacting assembly of procedures, processes, methods, personnel, and equipment to perform automatically a series of data processing operations on data. (The data processing operations may result in a change in the semantic content of the data.)
- Data processing by means of one or more devices that use common storage for all or part of a computer program, and also for all or part of the data necessary for execution of the program; that execute user-written or user-designated programs; that perform user-designated symbol manipulation, such as arithmetic operations, logic operation, or character string manipulations; and that can execute programs that modify themselves during their execution. Automatic data processing may be performed by a stand-alone unit or by several connected units.
- Data processing largely performed by automatic means.
- That branch of science and technology concerned with methods and techniques relating to data processing largely performed by automatic means.
References
This article incorporates public ___domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188).- Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
