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
- The information wont be verbatim because the data differs.
- The information and data gathered for the article was from the group.
- The information allows for the creation of simulations and data mining.
- The folder contained vital information and data from the original file.
- The source of the information is from personal knowledge of the subject.
- Would such valuable information not be lost in the morass of data elsewhere
- The analysis is done on the basis of the information provided by the vendors.
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