English Online Dictionary. What means information? What does information mean?
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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/
- 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.]
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
- (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.]
- (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.]
- (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
- (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
- 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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
English terms starting with “information”
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References
Further reading
- information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “information”, in 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, →OCLC.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Noun
information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
- (a piece of) information
Inflection
Derived terms
- kontaktinformation
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin īnfōrmātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/
Noun
information f (plural informations)
- (countable) piece of information; datum
- (plural only) news
- (uncountable) information
Synonyms
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
Derived terms
- autoroute de l’information
- lettre d’information
- relevé d’informations
- société de l’information
Related terms
- informateur, infomatrice
- informaticien
- informatif
- informationnel
- informatique
- informatiser
- informer
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
Noun
information c
- information
Declension
Related terms
- info
- informant
- informationsavdelning
- informatör
- informera
- turistinformation
References
- information in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- information in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- information in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)