information
English
Etymology
From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”), Norwegian informasjon (“information”). Morphologically inform + -ation
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
- That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
- 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, countable) 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.]
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- (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.]
- (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
- As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]
Usage notes
- The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
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Further reading
- information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “information”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “information”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
References
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Noun
information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
- (a piece of) information.
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerne |
genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernes |
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “information”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
information c
Declension
Declension of information | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerna |
Genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernas |
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- en:Computing
- en:Christianity
- en:Information theory
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