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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a message received and understood [syn: information, info]
2: knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
3: formal accusation of a crime
4: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" [syn: data, information]
5: (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" [syn: information, selective information, entropy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence 2. a. (1) knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction (2) intelligence, news (3) facts, data b. the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects c. (1) a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer) representing data (2) something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents physical or mental experience or another construct d. a quantitative measure of the content of information; specifically a numerical quantity that measures the uncertainty in the outcome of an experiment to be performed 3. the act of informing against a person 4. a formal accusation of a crime made by a prosecuting officer as distinguished from an indictment presented by a grand jury • informational adjective • informationally adverb

U.S. Military Dictionary

1. Facts, data, or instructions in any medium or form. 2. The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in their representation. (JP 3-13.1)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a something told; knowledge. b (usu. foll. by on, about) items of knowledge; news (the latest information on the crisis). 2 Law (usu. foll. by against) a charge or complaint lodged with a court or magistrate. 3 a the act of informing or telling. b an instance of this. Phrases and idioms: information retrieval the tracing of information stored in books, computers, etc. information science the study of the processes for storing and retrieving information. information theory Math. the quantitative study of the transmission of information by signals etc. Derivatives: informational adj. informationally adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L informatio -onis (as INFORM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Information In`for*ma"tion, n. [F., fr. L. informatio representation, cinception. See Inform, v. t.] 1. The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. --South. 2. News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. --Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. --Swift. 3. (Law) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Information about someone or something consists of facts about them. Pat refused to give her any information about Sarah... Each centre would provide information on technology and training... ...an important piece of information... N-UNCOUNT: oft N about/on n 2. Information consists of the facts and figures that are stored and used by a computer program. (COMPUTING) Pictures are scanned into a form of digital information that computers can recognize. = data N-UNCOUNT 3. Information is a service which you can telephone to find out someone's telephone number. (AM; in BRIT, use directory enquiries)

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Intelligence, notice, advice. 2. Knowledge, knowledge of facts. 3. (Law.) Accusation, complaint, denunciation.

Moby Thesaurus

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