informatics

See also: informàtics

English

Etymology

Coined 1967 from information +‎ -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Informatik dates from 1957, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French informatique from 1962.

Noun

Template:Wikipedia 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

• bioinformatics
• community informatics
• ecoinformatics
• health informatics
• hydroinformatics
• legal informatics
• nanoinformatics
• neuroinformatics
• nursing informatics
• social informatics
• veterinary informatics

 

Derived terms

• informaticist

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

• Czech: informatika (cs) f
• Dutch: informatica (nl) f
• Finnish: informatiikka
• French: science de l’information f
• German: Informatik (de) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hungarian: informatika (hu)
• Indonesian: informatika (id)
• Irish: faisnéisíocht f
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 情報学 (ja) (じょうほうがく, jōhōgaku)
• Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (poar rak mean vit tyea)
• 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)