Wiktionary

information

See also: Information

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

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NounEdit

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

  1. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
  2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
    I need some more information about this issue.
  3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
    For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
  4. (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.]
    • 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
      On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
  5. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th–17th c.]
  6. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
  7. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
  8. (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
  9. (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
  10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
  12. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
  13. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
  14. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]

Usage notesEdit

  • 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.[1]

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Pages starting with “information”.

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TranslationsEdit

(obsolete in English) the act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation — See also translations at accusation

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ W. N. Holmes (2001-05), “The Great Term Robbery”, in Computer‎[1], volume 34, issue 5, DOI:10.1109/2.920619, ISSN 0018-9162, page 94–96

Further readingEdit

  •   information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • information at 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

DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.

NounEdit

information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)

  1. (a piece of) information

InflectionEdit

Declension of information
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative information informationen informationer informationerne
genitive informations informationens informationers informationernes

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French, borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnem.

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NounEdit

information f (plural informations)

  1. (countable) piece of information; datum
    Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
  2. (plural only) news
    Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
  3. (uncountable) information
    Théorie de l'information.

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.

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NounEdit

information c

  1. information

DeclensionEdit

Declension of information 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative information informationen informationer informationerna
Genitive informations informationens informationers informationernas

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