Definitions for informationˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

in•for•ma•tionˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən(n.)

knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance.
knowledge gained through study, communication, research, etc.; data.
the act or fact of informing.
a service or employee whose function is to provide information to the public.
Law. a formal criminal charge brought by a prosecuting officer rather than through the indictment of a grand jury. the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime.
Category: Law
(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.
computer data at any stage of processing, as input, output, storage, or transmission.
Category: Computers

Origin of information:

1350–1400

in`for•ma′tion•al(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

information, info(noun)
a message received and understood
information(noun)
knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
information(noun)
formal accusation of a crime
data, information(noun)
a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
"statistical data"
information, selective information, entropy(noun)
(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
"the signal contained thousands of bits of information"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

information(noun)ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən
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

Wiktionary

information(Noun)
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
I need some more information about this issue.
information(Noun)
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
information(Noun)
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.
information(Noun)
The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
information(Noun)
The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
information(Noun)
The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
information(Noun)
Divine inspiration.
information(Noun)
Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
information(Noun)
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
information(Noun)
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information.

Origin: From informacioun, enformation et al., informacion, enformacion et al. (French: information), and their source, informatio, from the participle stem of informare.

Webster Dictionary

Information(verb)
the act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence
Information(verb)
news, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction
Information(verb)
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

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

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.