'Information' definitions:
Definition of 'information'
(from WordNet)
noun
A message received and understood [syn: information, info]
noun
Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
noun
Formal accusation of a crime
noun
A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" [syn: data, information]
noun
(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" [syn: information, selective information, entropy]
Definition of 'Information'
From: GCIDE
- Information \In`for*ma"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. informatio representation, conception. See Inform, v. t.]
- 1. The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. [1913 Webster]
- The active informations of the intellect. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Larger opportunities of information. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Information Theory) A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also {information content}. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision. [PJC]
- 5. (Computers) Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'information'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- acquaintance,
- advice,
- ALGOL,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- alphabetic data,
- alphanumeric code,
- angular data,
- answer,
- arraignment,
- assembler,
- bail,
- bill of particulars,
- binary digit,
- binary scale,
- binary system,
- bit,
- blame,
- brass tacks,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broadcast journalism,
- bug,
- byte,
- catechization,
- charge,
- coaching,
- COBOL,
- command pulses,
- commands,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- compiler,
- complaint,
- computer code,
- computer language,
- computer program,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- control signals,
- controlled quantity,
- conversation,
- converse,
- corpus,
- correcting signals,
- correspondence,
- count,
- data,
- datum,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- delation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- didactics,
- direction,
- dirt,
- dope,
- edification,
- education,
- enlightenment,
- error,
- error signals,
- ESP,
- essential facts,
- essentials,
- exchange,
- experience,
- expertise,
- facts,
- factual base,
- familiarity,
- feedback pulses,
- feedback signals,
- film data,
- FORTRAN,
- gen,
- guidance,
- hexadecimal system,
- illumination,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- imputation,
- indictment,
- info,
- innuendo,
- input data,
- input quantity,
- insinuation,
- instruction,
- instructions,
- intelligence,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- intimacy,
- journalism,
- ken,
- know-how,
- knowing,
- knowledge,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- linguistic intercourse,
- lore,
- low-down,
- machine language,
- message,
- multiple messages,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- noise,
- numeric data,
- octal system,
- oscillograph data,
- output data,
- output quantity,
- pedagogics,
- pedagogy,
- plaint,
- play,
- polar data,
- poop,
- practical knowledge,
- presentment,
- press association,
- private knowledge,
- private teaching,
- privity,
- programmed instruction,
- prosecution,
- punch-card data,
- radio,
- random data,
- ratio cognoscendi,
- rectangular data,
- reeducation,
- reference quantity,
- reply,
- report,
- reportage,
- reproach,
- response,
- ruly English,
- schooling,
- science,
- self-instruction,
- self-knowledge,
- self-teaching,
- signals,
- single messages,
- social intercourse,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- spoon-feeding,
- suit,
- talking,
- taxing,
- teaching,
- technic,
- technics,
- technique,
- telegraph agency,
- telepathy,
- television,
- the data,
- the details,
- the dope,
- the facts,
- the fourth estate,
- the information,
- the particulars,
- the picture,
- the press,
- the scoop,
- the score,
- the specifics,
- the whole story,
- tidings,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- true bill,
- tuition,
- tutelage,
- tutorage,
- tutoring,
- tutorship,
- two-way communication,
- unorganized data,
- unspoken accusation,
- veiled accusation,
- visible-speech data,
- wire service,
- wisdom,
- word
Words containing 'Information'
- Inform,
- Informal,
- Informalities,
- Informality,
- Informally,
- Informant,
- Informative,
- Informed,
- Informer,
- Informing,
- Informity,
- Informous,
- To inform against,
- inform on,
- informational,
- informatively,
- informed of,
- Common informer,
- Informed stars,
- To lodge an information,
- confidential information,
- information age,
- information bulletin,
- information content,
- information gathering,
- information measure,
- information processing,
- information return,
- information science,
- information superhighway,
- information system,
- information technology,
- information theory,
- information warfare,
- informational rna,
- informed consent,
- informer's privilege,
- inside information,
- insider information,
- intelligence information,
- selective information,
- Well-informed,
- electronic information service,
- information processing system,
- defense information systems agency,
- defense technical information center,
- national technical information service,
- american standard code for information interchange