information

Meanings

Plural: informations

Noun

• a message received and understood
• knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
• formal accusation of a crime
• a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
• (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
  • "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
• 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.
• The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
• 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.
• The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
• The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
• The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
• […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
• Divine inspiration.
• A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
• Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
• As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
• Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Synonyms

data, entropy, info, selective information

Related Words

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, knowledge