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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation et al., Middle French informacion, enformacion et al. (French: information), and their source, Latin informātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of informāre (“to inform”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃən/
• (US) IPA: /ˌɪnfəɹˈmeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

information (usually uncountable; plural informations)

1. 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.

2. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]

   For your information, I did this because I wanted to.

3. (law) 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.]
4. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
5. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
6. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
7. (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
8. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
9. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
10. As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data. [from 20th c.]

    And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information.

Derived terms

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Related terms

• inform
• informant
• informatics
• knowledge

Translations

Translations

Afrikaans: inligting, informasie Albanian: informacion (sq) f. Arabic: معلومات (ar) (ma3lumaat) f. pl. Armenian: տեղեկատվություն (hy) (teġekatvut'yun), տեղեկություն (hy) (teġekut'yun) Azeri: məlumat (az) Basque: informazio (eu) Belarusian: інфармацыя (be) (infarmácyja) f. Breton: ditour m. (1), keloù m. (1, 2) Bulgarian: информация (bg) (informácija) f. Catalan: informació f. Chamorro: infotmasion (ch) Chinese: Mandarin: 信息 (cmn) (xìnxī), 資訊 (cmn), 资讯 (cmn) (zīxùn), 情報 (cmn), 情报 (cmn) (qíngbào) Czech: informace (cs) f. Danish: information, informationer (da) Dutch: informatie (nl) f. Esperanto: informo (eo) Estonian: informatsioon (et), teave (et) Finnish: informaatio (fi) French: renseignement (fr) m., informations (fr) f. pl., information (fr) f. Galician: información (gl) f. Georgian: ცნობება (ka) (tsnobeba), შეტყობინება (ka) (šetq῾obineba) German: Information (de) f., Auskunft (de) f. Greek: πληροφορία (el) (plērophoría) f., πληροφορίες (el) (plērophoríes) f. pl. Haitian Creole: enfòmasyon Hebrew: מידע (he) (meidá) Hindi: जानकारी (hi) (jānkārī) f. Hungarian: felvilágosítás (hu), tájékoztatás (hu), információ (hu) Ido: informo Italian: informazione (it) f.

Japanese: 情報 (ja) (じょうほう, jōhō) Korean: 안내 (ko) (annae), 정보 (ko) (jeongbo) (情報 (ko)) Latin: nūntius (la) m., scientia (la) f., doctrina (la) f., indicium (la) n. Latvian: informācija (lv) f. Lithuanian: Aukštaitian: informacija (lt) f. Malay: informasi, maklumat Malayalam: അറിവ് (aRivu), വിവരം (vivaram) Marathi: माहिती (māhitī) Mongolian: ѳгѳгдѳл (mn) (ögögdöl) Norwegian: informasjon (no) m. Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: اطلاعات (fa), آگاهی (fa), اخبار (fa), استحضار (fa) Samogitian: infuormacėjė f. Polish: informacja (pl) f. Portuguese: informação (pt) f. Romanian: informație (ro) f. Romansch: infurmaziun (rm) f. Russian: информация (ru) (informácija) f. Serbian: informacija (sr) f. Slovene: informacija (sl) f., informacije (sl) pl. Spanish: información (es) f. Swedish: information (sv) c. Tagalog: impormasyon (tl) Thai: ข่าว (th) (kàao), ข้อมูล (th) (kôr moon) Turkish: bilgi (tr) Ukrainian: інформація (uk) (informácija) f. Urdu: جانکاری (ur) (jānkārī) f. Vietnamese: thông tin (vi) Welsh: gwybodaeth f.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: force · character · taking · #466: information · seem · book · story

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• IPA: /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/, SAMPA: /E~.fOR.ma.sjO~/

Noun

information f. (plural informations)

1. (countable) piece of information; datum

   Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.

2. (plural only; not used in singular form) news

   Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.

3. (uncountable) information

   Théorie de l'information.

Synonyms

• (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
• (news): nouvelles
• (information): renseignement

Related terms

• informateur, infomatrice
• informaticien
• informatif
• informationnel
• informatique
• informatiser
• informer

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Noun

information c.

1. information

Declension

Declension of information

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	information	informationen	informationer	informationerna
genitive	informations	informationens	informationers	informationernas

Related terms

• info
• informant
• informationsavdelning
• informatör
• informera
• turistinformation