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in·for·ma·tion 
[in-fer-mey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
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[in-fer-mey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime. |
| 2. | knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing. |
| 3. | the act or fact of informing. |
| 4. | an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public: The ticket seller said to ask information for a timetable. |
| 5. | Directory Assistance. |
| 6. | Law.
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| 7. | (in information theory) an indication of the number of possible choices of messages, expressible as the value of some monotonic function of the number of choices, usually the logarithm to the base 2. |
| 8. | Computers.
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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME: instruction, teaching, a forming of the mind < ML, L: idea, conception. See inform1, -ation]
] —Related forms
in·for·ma·tion·al, adjective
—Synonyms 1. data, facts, intelligence, advice. 2. Information, knowledge, wisdom are terms for human acquirements through reading, study, and practical experience. Information applies to facts told, read, or communicated that may be unorganized and even unrelated: to pick up useful information. Knowledge is an organized body of information, or the comprehension and understanding consequent on having acquired and organized a body of facts: a knowledge of chemistry. Wisdom is a knowledge of people, life, and conduct, with the facts so thoroughly assimilated as to have produced sagacity, judgment, and insight: to use wisdom in handling people.
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| in·for·ma·tion
(ĭn'fər-mā'shən) Pronunciation Key
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in'for·ma'tion·al adj. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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information
1387, "act of informing," from O.Fr. informacion, from L. informationem (nom. informatio) "outline, concept, idea," noun of action from informare (see inform). Meaning "knowledge communicated" is from c.1450. Short form info is attested from 1906. Info-mercial and info-tainment are from 1983.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| information | |
noun | |
| 1. | a message received and understood |
| 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] |
| 5. | (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
information
see under gold mine.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: in·for·ma·tion
Function: noun
: an instrument containing a formal accusation of a crime that is issued by a prosecuting officer and that serves the same function as an indictment presented by a grand jury —compare COMPLAINT 2, INDICTMENT
NOTE: About half the states in the United States allow prosecutors to issue informations. The rest require indictment.
Main Entry: in·for·ma·tion
Function: noun
: an instrument containing a formal accusation of a crime that is issued by a prosecuting officer and that serves the same function as an indictment presented by a grand jury —compare COMPLAINT 2, INDICTMENT
NOTE: About half the states in the United States allow prosecutors to issue informations. The rest require indictment.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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