informatics

See also: informàtics

English

Etymology

Coined 1967 from information +‎ -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/, [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧for‧mat‧ics
• Rhymes: -ætɪks

Noun

informatics (uncountable)

1. (computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.

Hyponyms

Affixed forms and closed compounds

• bioinformatics
• ecoinformatics
• geomatics
• hydroinformatics
• lengthioinformatics
• nanoinformatics
• neuroinformatics

 

Open compounds

• community informatics
• discovery informatics
• health informatics
• legal informatics
• medical informatics
• nursing informatics
• social informatics
• veterinary informatics

 

Derived terms

• archaeoinformatics
• astroinformatics
• biblioinformatics
• cheminformatics
• chemoinformatics
• geoinformatics
• glycoinformatics
• immunoinformatics
• informaticist
• pharmacoinformatics
• phyloinformatics
• teleinformatics
• terminotics

 

Related terms

• informatic

Translations

branch of information science

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: informàtica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息學／信息学 (zh) (xìnxīxué), (Taiwan) 資訊學／资讯学 (zīxùnxué)

• Czech: informatika (cs) f
• Dutch: informatica (nl) f
• Esperanto: informatiko sg
• Finnish: informatiikka
• French: science de l’information f, informatique (fr) m
• German: Informatik (de) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hungarian: informatika (hu), információtechnológia (hu)
• Indonesian: informatika (id)
• Irish: faisnéisíocht f
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• Japanese: 情報学 (ja) (じょうほうがく, jōhōgaku)
• Kazakh: ақпараттану (kk) (aqparattanu), ақпаратнама (aqparatnama)
• Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (poar rak mean vit tyea)
• Kyrgyz: билметануу (bilmetanuu)
• Mongolian: мэдээлэл зүй (medeelel züj)
• Persian: انفورماتیک (fa) (anformâtik)
• Polish: informatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: informática (pt) f
• Romanian: informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
• Spanish: informática (es) f
• Swedish: informatik (sv) c
• Turkish: bilişim (tr)
• Ukrainian: інформа́тика (uk) f (informátyka)