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1. (n.) information
knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance.
2. information
knowledge gained through study, communication, research, etc.; data.
3. information
the act or fact of informing.
4. information
a service or employee whose function is to provide information to the public.
5. information
Law.
6. information
a formal criminal charge brought by a prosecuting officer rather than through the indictment of a grand jury.
7. information
the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime.
8. 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.
9. information
computer data at any stage of processing, as input, output, storage, or transmission.
Etymology: (1350–1400)
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| Definition of 'Information' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) information, info
a message received and understood
2. (noun) information
knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
3. (noun) information
formal accusation of a crime
4. (noun) data, information
a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
"statistical data"
5. (noun) information, selective information, entropy
(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
"the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
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1. (noun) information
facts or data
a new piece of information; Visit our website for more information on how to order.; Can you give me some information about the area?; a computer disk containing customers' personal information
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| Definition of 'Information' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) Information
the act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence
2. (verb) Information
news, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction
3. (verb) Information
a proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment
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| Definition of 'Information' |
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
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1. Information
1. Facts, data, or instructions in any medium or form. 2. The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in their representation.
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