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Information

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Noun

1. info, information

a message received and understood

2. information

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

3. information

formal accusation of a crime

4. data, information

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

Example Sentences:
'statistical data'

5. entropy, information, selective information

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

Example Sentences:
'the signal contained thousands of bits of information'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Information

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noun
1. 
knowledge acquired through experience or study
2. 
knowledge of specific and timely events or situations; news
3. 
the act of informing or the condition of being informed
4. 
a. 
an office, agency, etc, providing information
b. 
(as modifier)
information service
5. 
a. 
a charge or complaint made before justices of the peace, usually on oath, to institute summary criminal proceedings
b. 
a complaint filed on behalf of the Crown, usually by the attorney general
6. computing
a. 
the meaning given to data by the way in which it is interpreted
b.  another word for data (sense 2)
7.  too much information

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Information

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noun
1. 
an informing or being informed; esp., a telling or being told of something
2. 
something told; news; intelligence; word
3. 
knowledge acquired in any manner; facts; data; learning; lore
4. 
a person or agency answering questions as a service to others
5. 
in information theory and computer science, a precise measure of the information content of a message, measured in bits and ranging from zero when the entire message is known in advance to some maximum when nothing is known of its content
6. 
any data that can be stored in and retrieved from a computer
7.  Law
an accusation, under oath, of a criminal offense, not by indictment of a grand jury, but by a public officer, such as a prosecutor

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Information

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n.
1. Knowledge or facts learned, especially about a certain subject or event. See Synonyms at knowledge.
2. The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge: Safety instructions are provided for the information of our passengers.
3. Computers Processed, stored, or transmitted data.
4. A numerical measure of the uncertainty of an experimental outcome.
5. Law A formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment in instances in which the offense, if a federal crime, is not a felony or in which the offense, if a state crime, is allowed prosecution in that manner rather than by indictment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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