Definition of INFORMATICS

informatics

Meanings

Noun

  • the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
  • A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.

Origin / Etymology

Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

Synonyms

information processing, information science, IP

Scrabble Score: 18

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Words With Friends Score: 21

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