information
Overview
This page has 19 definitions of information with English translations in 4 languages. Information is a noun. Examples of how to use information in a sentence are shown. Also define these 33 related words and terms: know, topic, knowledge, informing, notification, law, criminal, judge, magistrate, warrant, accusation, grand jury, education, training, form, forming, animation, computing, meaning, data, conventions, representation, Christianity, divine, inspiration, telephone, information theory, unambiguous, abstract, bit, information, datum, and news.
See also: Information
English
Etymology
From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”), Norwegian informasjon (“information”). Morphologically inform + -ation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- I need some more information about this issue.
Know definition
To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. (1 of 12 know definitions)
Topic definition
topical
Knowledge definition
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. (1 of 12 knowledge definitions)
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
- For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
Informing definition
present participle of inform
- (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. [from 15th c.]
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
Law definition
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. (1 of 20 law definitions)
Judge definition
(1 of 6 judge definitions)
Warrant definition
Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior. (1 of 10 warrant definitions)
Grand Jury definition
A group of citizens assembled by the government to hear evidence against an accused, and determine whether an indictment for a crime should be brought. (1 of 2 grand jury definitions)
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
- (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
Education definition
The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment. (1 of 2 education definitions)
Training definition
present participle of train
- (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
Form definition
To do with shape.- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A long bench with no back.
- The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Forming definition
present participle of form
- (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
Meaning definition
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
Conventions definition
plural of convention
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
Christianity definition
An Abrahamic religion originating from the community of the followers of Jesus Christ.
Inspiration definition
The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration. (1 of 6 inspiration definitions)
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
Telephone definition
A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone). (1 of 3 telephone definitions)
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
Information Theory definition
A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
Abstract definition
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication. (1 of 8 abstract definitions)
Bit definition
(1 of 22 bit definitions)
- As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]
Usage notes
- The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]
Hyponyms
- boiler-plate information
- disinformation
- misinformation
- perfect information
Derived terms
- bioinformation
- disinformation
- FYI
- info
- infobesity
- informational
- informationism
- informationist
- information-processing
- misinformation
Pages starting with “information”.
Related terms
- exformation
- inform
- informant
- informatics
- information model
- information overload
- information retrieval
- information science
- information security
- information society
- information superhighway
- information symmetry
- information system
- information technology
- information theory
- information velocity
- knowledge
Translations
communicable knowledge
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act of informing or imparting knowledge
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Further reading
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information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - information at OneLook Dictionary Search.
- information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- information in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Noun
information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
- (a piece of) information.
Information definition
That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is". (1 of 14 information definitions)
Inflection
Declension of information
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerne |
| genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernes |
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
information f (plural informations)
- (countable) piece of information; datum
- Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
- (plural only) news
- Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
- (uncountable) information
- Théorie de l'information.
Synonyms
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “information”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
information c
Declension
| Declension of information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerna |
| Genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernas |
Related terms
- info
- informant
- informationsavdelning
- informatör
- informera
- turistinformation