information

IPA: ɪnfɝmˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • 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.
  • (law, countable) 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.
  • (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  • (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
  • (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
  • (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
  • (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
  • A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
  • (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
  • As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
  • (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).
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Examples of "information" in Sentences

  • This information may not be available if * debug information* is not present 

  • The information... information... information* can be found at the end of the video:
  • Unlike the fictional president in Tom Clancy's “Sum of All Fears” – who was tricked into that “really bad information” – Bush and his team have actively sought out the bad information and assembled it as justification for going to war.
  • Lord Chancellor: "Whether, by the _law of England_, and constant practice in all prosecutions by _indictment and information_ for crimes and misdemeanors by writing or speaking, the particular words supposed to be written or spoken must not be expressly specified in the indictment or information?"

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