ALL meanings of information
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I i - noun information Facts provided or learned about something or someone. 1
- noun information knowledge 1
- noun information data 1
- noun information incriminating knowledge 1
- noun information telephone service 1
- noun information awareness 1
- noun information news 1
- noun Definition of information in Technology (data) The result of applying data processing to data, giving it context and meaning. Information can then be further processed to yeild knowledge. People or computers can find patterns in data to perceive information, and information can be used to enhance knowledge. Since knowledge is prerequisite to wisdom, we always want more data and information. But, as modern societies verge on information overload, we especially need better ways to find patterns. 1234567.89 is data. "Your bank balance has jumped 8087% to $1234567.89" is information. "Nobody owes me that much money" is knowledge. "I'd better talk to the bank before I spend it, because of what has happened to other people" is wisdom. 1
- noun information knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime. 1
- noun information knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing. 1
- noun information the act or fact of informing. 1
- noun information 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. 1
- noun information Directory Assistance. 1
- noun information Law. an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury. a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily. the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime. 1
- noun information (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. 1
- noun information Computers. 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. data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.). 1
- uncountable noun information Information about someone or something consists of facts about them. 0
- uncountable noun information Information consists of the facts and figures that are stored and used by a computer program. 0
- uncountable noun information Information is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number. 0
- noun information knowledge acquired through experience or study 0
- noun information knowledge of specific and timely events or situations; news 0
- noun information the act of informing or the condition of being informed 0
- noun information an office, agency, etc, providing information 0
- noun information (as modifier) 0
- noun information a charge or complaint made before justices of the peace, usually on oath, to institute summary criminal proceedings 0
- noun information a complaint filed on behalf of the Crown, usually by the attorney general 0
- noun information the meaning given to data by the way in which it is interpreted 0
- noun information an informing or being informed; esp., a telling or being told of something 0
- noun information something told; news; intelligence; word 0
- noun information knowledge acquired in any manner; facts; data; learning; lore 0
- noun information a person or agency answering questions as a service to others 0
- noun information in information theory and computer science, a precise measure of the information content of a message, measured in bits and ranging from zero when the entire message is known in advance to some maximum when nothing is known of its content 0
- noun information any data that can be stored in and retrieved from a computer 0
- noun information an accusation, under oath, of a criminal offense, not by indictment of a grand jury, but by a public officer, such as a prosecutor 0
- noun information Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. 0
- noun information The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. 0
- noun information (law) 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. 0
- noun information (Obsolete (No longer in use)) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. 0
- noun information (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. 0
- noun information (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. 0
- noun information (computing). 0
- noun information (Christianity) Divine inspiration. 0
- noun information A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. 0
- noun information (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. 0
- noun information As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. 0
- noun information (Information Technology Industry Jargon) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). 0