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information
[ in-fer-mey-shuhn ]
noun
- knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news:
information concerning a crime.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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.
- 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.).
information
/ ˌɪԴəˈɪʃə /
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
- too much information informal.I don't want to hear any more
Derived Forms
- ˌԴڴǰˈپDzԲ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- Эǰ·tDz· adjective
- ԴDzi·ڴǰ·tDz· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of information1
Idioms and Phrases
see under gold mine .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
ORR has rescinded its policy of not sharing information on sponsors with immigration agencies and law enforcement, and a wave of wellness checks on formerly unaccompanied minors has made many families skittish.
There are brain cells that represent entire concepts, some with an affinity for visual information and others for olfactory input.
Then, in April, the New York Times and others reported that Hegseth had shared information about the same military action in a second private Signal group chat, which included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
Although there is no official information on the status of such projects, sources say progress has been limited.
He was arrested Tuesday for making "false statements with the intention of causing public panic", Myanmar's information ministry said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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