# information
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
* That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
* Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
    I need some more information about this issue.
* The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
    For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
* (law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. [from 15th c.]
** 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 131:On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
* (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th–17th c.]
* (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
* (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
* (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
* (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
* A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
* (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
* As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
* (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]

#### Usage notes

* The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.

#### Hyponyms

* boiler-plate information
* disinformation
* misinformation
* perfect information

#### Derived terms

* advermation
* aesthetic information
* Akaike information criterion
* bioinformation
* black information
* chief information officer
* counterinformation
* cyberinformation
* disinformation
* esthetic information
* Fisher information
* flight information region
* for your information
* freedom of information
* FYI
* geographic information science
* geographic information system
* geoinformation
* hyperinformation
* info
* infobesity
* infocommunications
* infodemic
* infoganda
* infohazard
* infomediary
* infomercial
* informational
* information and communications technology
* information assurance
* information deficit model
* information design
* information desk
* information engine
* information entropy
* information fatigue
* information fatigue syndrome
* information float
* information hazard
* information hiding
* information impactedness
* information integrity
* informationism
* informationist
* informationization
* informationize
* informationless
* information literacy
* information management
* information market
* information modeling
* information-processing
* information scent
* information space
* information technology bubble
* information-theoretic death
* information warfare
* informetrics
* infotainment
* infotisement
* infotopia
* infoxication
* inside information
* library and information science
* low-information
* malinformation
* metainformation
* misinformation
* mutual information
* neuroinformation
* noninformation
* outformation
* patient information leaflet
* postinformation
* public information officer
* quantum information science
* quantum information theory
* Shannon information
* super-information
* superinformation
* too much information
* transinformation
* uninformation
* which-path information
* white information
English terms starting with “information”

#### Related terms

* exformation
* inform
* informant
* informatics
* information model
* information overload
* information retrieval
* information science
* information security
* information society
* information superhighway
* information symmetry
* information system
* information technology
* information theory
* information velocity

#### Translations
### See also

* knowledge

### References

* ↑ W. N. Holmes (2001-05) “The Great Term Robbery”, in Computer‎, volume 34, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 94–96

### Further reading

* information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “information”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “information”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.

### Noun

information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
* (a piece of) information

#### Derived terms

* kontaktinformation

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin īnfōrmātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

information f (plural informations)
* (countable) piece of information; datum
    Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.This piece of information reached us last night.
* (plural only) news
    Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.Every day, he watches TV at noon to catch the news.
* (uncountable) information
    Théorie de l’information.Theory of information

#### Synonyms

* (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
* (news): nouvelles
* (information): renseignement

#### Derived terms

* autoroute de l’information
* lettre d’information
* relevé d’informations
* société de l’information

#### Related terms

* informateur, infomatrice
* informaticien
* informatif
* informationnel
* informatique
* informatiser
* informer

### Further reading

* “information”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Noun

information
* Alternative form of enformacioun

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

information c
* information

#### Related terms

* info
* informant
* informationsavdelning
* informatör
* informera
* turistinformation

### References

* information in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* information in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* information in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)