MDE
German, noun
MDE is spelled M-D-E (3 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 110,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). MDE is a German feminine noun meaning “initialism of MaschinenDatenErfassung (machine data acquisition, interface between production technology and information processing…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does MDE mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinitialism of MaschinenDatenErfassung (machine data acquisition, interface between production technology and information processing machines)
- 2
feminineinitialism of Mobile DatenErfassung (mobile data acquisition)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Maschinendatenerfassung 2. mobile Datenerfassung – Erfassung von Daten ohne PC-Arbeitsplatz
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is MDE in German?
MDE appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).