Definitions for information
information
in·for·ma·tion
Spelling: [in-fer-mey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən/
Information is a 11 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 515 anagrams from letters in information (afiimnnoort).
Definitions for information
noun
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knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news:
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knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data:
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the act or fact of informing.
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an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public:
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Directory Assistance.
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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.
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(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.
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Computers.
important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program:
data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.).
Origin of information
1350-1400; Middle English: instruction, teaching, a forming of the mind Medieval Latin, Latin: idea, conception. See inform1, -atio
Examples for information
Ironically, the play deals with the ‘management’ of information by the Establishment.
The United States government might not release that information for years, if ever.
Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All Along!”
Mrs M. is a humbug—not a drop of information can I get for love or money.
Further, the native who gave all the information to Mr. Monger was one of our party.
It was almost impossible to win their confidence, or to get information from them.
The FBI has also been searching its records for any information that could assist the French investigation, a spokesperson added.
The information obtained showed that there were five culprits.
No questions were asked; no information given; they simply disappeared.
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