information

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform +‎ -ation. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən Hyphenation: in‧for‧ma‧tion === Noun === information (usually uncountable, plural informations) Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity. 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.] (computing, data management) The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format. [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” ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === 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. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “information”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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 ==== === Further reading === “information”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Noun === information alternative form of enformacioun == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis. === Pronunciation === === Noun === information c information ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === information in Svensk ordbok (SO) information in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) information in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)