noun: information

1. 1.

   facts provided or learned about something or someone.

   "a vital piece of information"

   synonyms:

   details, particulars, facts, figures, statistics, data; More knowledge, intelligence; instruction, advice, guidance, direction, counsel, enlightenment; news, notice, word; material, documentation, documents; informalinfo, the low-down, the dope, the inside story, the latest, bumf, deets; informalgen "for further information write to the address below"

   • Law

     a charge lodged with a magistrates' court.

     plural noun: informations

     "the tenant may lay an information against his landlord"
2. 2.

   what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.

   "genetically transmitted information"

   • Computing

     data as processed, stored, or transmitted by a computer.
   • (in information theory) a mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular sequence of symbols, impulses, etc., as against that of alternative sequences.

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