knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing.
the act or fact of informing.
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.
Directory Assistance.
Law.
an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury.
a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily.
the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime.
(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.
Computers.
important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program: Using the input data, we have come up with some significant new information.
data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.).
Origin of information
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English infformacion, informacyon “instruction, teaching, a forming of the mind,” from Middle French, Old French informacion, information “criminal inquiry,” from Late Latin informātiō “teaching, instruction,” from Latin: “sketch, first draft; idea, conception”; see inform1, -ation
SYNONYMS FOR information
1 data, facts, intelligence, advice.
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synonym study for information
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.
informal settlement, informal vote, informant, in forma pauperis, informatics, information, information age, information architecture, information bubble, information economy, information overload
Many fishing guides are still operating safe trips to local waters, but you can also find information on local fisheries on Fishbrain, a website and app that uses crowdsourcing to offer incredible detail on local fishing holes.
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Ask for help if you need information, and report any problems you encounter.
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He was running for president, and he had the same data and the same information.
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Schilling pointed out nothing in the Politifact assessment determined the ad was false, adding the American Principles Project is seeking more information from Facebook and will seek options to appeal.
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Even though it affected a smaller region, it gave us some information because it showed how many girls were in school before that and how many returned, and for those that did not return, why that was the case.
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Like many trans users, Transartist often gets used as a source of information more than anything else.
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The FBI has also been searching its records for any information that could assist the French investigation, a spokesperson added.
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The United States government might not release that information for years, if ever.
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Ironically, the play deals with the ‘management’ of information by the Establishment.
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Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
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The audit office should have information at hand sufficient to decline the claim or settle it immediately.
The Modern Railroad|Edward Hungerford
It is for the information of such as these that this chapter is mainly intended, not for scientists or miners of large experience.
Getting Gold|J. C. F. Johnson
All of which information, useful in a way, no doubt, was accepted by Jack with a smile.
The Golf Course Mystery|Chester K. Steele
In short, he accumulated all the information he could by which the cost of logging might be estimated.
The Blazed Trail|Stewart Edward White
Not a word of information was wrung from them, no murmur of complaint crossed their lips.
The Petticoat Commando|Johanna Brandt
British Dictionary definitions for information
information
/ (ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃən) /
noun
knowledge acquired through experience or study
knowledge of specific and timely events or situations; news
the act of informing or the condition of being informed
an office, agency, etc, providing information
(as modifier)information service
a charge or complaint made before justices of the peace, usually on oath, to institute summary criminal proceedings
a complaint filed on behalf of the Crown, usually by the attorney general
computing
the meaning given to data by the way in which it is interpreted
another word for data (def. 2)
too much informationinformalI don't want to hear any more