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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation et al., Middle French informacion, enformacion et al. (French: information), and their source, Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).
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Noun[edit]
information (usually uncountable; plural informations)
- 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.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
- For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
- (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.]
- (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
- (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
- (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
communicable knowledge
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Most common English words before 1923: force · character · taking · #466: information · seem · book · story
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
information f (plural informations)
- (countable) piece of information; datum
- Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
- (plural only) news
- Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
- (uncountable) information
- Théorie de l'information.
Synonyms[edit]
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
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Noun[edit]
information c
Declension[edit]
Declension of information
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerna |
| genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernas |
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- French pluralia tantum
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