English Explanatory Dictionary

informatics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of computer science.
  2. 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.

Pronunciation

/ɪnfəˈmætɪks/ /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/ [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks] En-us-informatics.ogg

Word forms

informatics

Etymology

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

Synonyms

computer science

Related words

informatic

Derived words

archaeoinformatics astroinformatics biblioinformatics cheminformatics chemoinformatics geoinformatics glycoinformatics immunoinformatics informaticist pharmacoinformatics phyloinformatics teleinformatics terminotics
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