information
Americannoun
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knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news.
information concerning a crime.
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- advice, intelligence, data
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knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data.
His wealth of general information is amazing.
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the act or fact of informing.
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an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public.
The ticket seller said to ask information for a timetable.
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Law.
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an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury.
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a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily.
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the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime.
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(in information theory) an indication of the number of possible choices of messages, expressible as the value of some monotonic function of the number of choices, usually the logarithm to the base 2.
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Computers.
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important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program.
Using the input data, we have come up with some significant new information.
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data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.).
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noun
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knowledge acquired through experience or study
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knowledge of specific and timely events or situations; news
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the act of informing or the condition of being informed
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an office, agency, etc, providing information
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information service
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a charge or complaint made before justices of the peace, usually on oath, to institute summary criminal proceedings
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a complaint filed on behalf of the Crown, usually by the attorney general
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computing
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the meaning given to data by the way in which it is interpreted
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another word for data
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informal I don't want to hear any more
Related Words
Information, knowledge, wisdom are terms for human acquirements through reading, study, and practical experience. Information applies to facts told, read, or communicated that may be unorganized and even unrelated: to pick up useful information. Knowledge is an organized body of information, or the comprehension and understanding consequent on having acquired and organized a body of facts: a knowledge of chemistry. Wisdom is a knowledge of people, life, and conduct, with the facts so thoroughly assimilated as to have produced sagacity, judgment, and insight: to use wisdom in handling people.
Other Word Forms
- informational adjective
- noninformational adjective
Etymology
Origin of information
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English infformacion, informacyon “instruction, teaching, a forming of the mind,” from Middle French, Old French informacion, information “criminal inquiry,” from Late Latin informātiō “teaching, instruction,” from Latin: “sketch, first draft; idea, conception”; inform 1, -ation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
His council has tried to correct things and get creators to retract false information.
From BBC
By changing the information traveling from the muscles to the brain, vibration appears to reshape how movement and exertion are perceived.
From Science Daily
Smart glasses enable the wearer to access information and apps similar to those on a smart phone including using maps, listening to music, and recording video.
From BBC
Last March, Chikli declared that aid groups working in Palestinian territories must provide Israel with the names, ID numbers and contact information for their staff.
In this proof of concept, information was encoded into the UV-C laser by the source-transmitter and then successfully decoded by the 2D semiconductor sensor acting as the receiver.
From Science Daily
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