English Explanatory Dictionary

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Meanings

noun
  1. Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
  2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
  3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
  4. 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.
  5. The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  6. The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
  7. The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
  8. The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
  9. Divine inspiration.
  10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
  11. Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
  12. The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.

Pronunciation

/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ en-us-information.ogg /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/

Word forms

information informations

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Late Latin in- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Late Latin fōrma Late Latin fōrmō Late Latin īnfōrmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Late Latin -tiō Late Latin īnfōrmātiōder. Middle English enformacioun English information From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform + -ation.

Related words

exformation inform informant informatics knowledge information model information overload information retrieval information science information security information society information superhighway information symmetry information system information technology information theory information velocity

Derived words

advermation aesthetic information Akaike information criterion bioinformation black information chief information officer counterinformation cyberinformation disinformation esthetic information Fisher information flight information region for your information freedom of information FYI geographic information science geographic information system geoinformation hyperinformation info infobesity infocommunications infodemic infoganda infohazard infomediary infomercial informational information and communications technology information arbitrage information assurance information deficit model information design information desk information drive information engine information entropy information fatigue information fatigue syndrome information float information hazard information hiding information highway information impactedness information integrity informationism informationist informationization informationize informationless information literacy information management information market information modeling information processing information radiator information scent information silo information space information studies
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