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.