The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MATRIX
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More clues leading to the result MATRIX
- Set of data soundly deceives mother at first
- Array has fanciful art in blend
- Top Gear presenter and kids heard this arrangement
- Mathematical array in jumble involving fiendish art
- Magic of spring, might you say, in table of data?
- Announcement of Prime Minister deceives development agency
- Network former PM dodges, we hear
- Fools follow PM on air, making case for growth?
- Framework said to follow April Fools?
- Blend involving art form’s formative environment
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The straight part
We know that "table of data" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case table of data = matrix.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MATRIX mean?
MATRIX noun- The womb.
- The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
- An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
- Part of the mitochondrion.
- The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
- A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
- A two-dimensional array.
- A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
- A table of data.
- A geological matrix.
- (archaeology and paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
- The environment from which a given sample is taken.
- In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
- In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
- The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
- (dyeing) The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
- A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.