information
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: informations
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”). Equivalent to inform + -ation.
Senses: glosses: That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
examples: text: I need some more information about this issue.
glosses: Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
examples: text: For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
glosses: The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
examples: text: On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
ref: 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 131:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
glosses: The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
glosses: The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
glosses: The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Divine inspiration.
glosses: A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
glosses: As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
topics: computing
engineering
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
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 drive
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 silo
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
superinformation
super-information
too much information
transinformation
uninformation
which-path information
white information
Related terms: word: exformation
word: inform
word: informant
word: informatics
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word: information model
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word: information overload
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word: information retrieval
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word: information science
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word: information security
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word: information society
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word: information superhighway
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word: information symmetry
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word: information system
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word: information technology
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word: information theory
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word: information velocity
word: knowledge