Noun: information ,in-fu(r)'mey-shun
- Knowledge acquired through study, experience or instruction
"The students gathered information from various sources for their research project"
- A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
"statistical information";
- data
- Details or other material about something
"give me the information on your new line of computers";
- info [informal], gen [Brit, informal]
- (information theory) a measure of the average amount of information contained in a message or the uncertainty in a data source, typically measured in bits
"the signal contained thousands of bits of information";
- entropy
- Formal accusation of a crime
"The police filed an information charging the suspect with burglary"
Derived forms: informations
Type of: accumulation, accusal, accusation, aggregation, assemblage, cognition, collection, content, information measure, message, noesis [technical], subject matter, substance
Encyclopedia: Information, Please