In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
INFORMATION
information, selective information, entropy
(noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; “the signal contained thousands of bits of information”
information
(noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
information, info
(noun) a message received and understood
information
(noun) formal accusation of a crime
data, information
(noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; “statistical data”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
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.]
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
(legal) 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.]
(computing) […] 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.
Hyponyms
• disinformation
• boiler-plate information
• misinformation
• perfect information
Source: Wiktionary
In`for*ma"tion, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. informatio representation, cinception. See Inform, v. t.]
1. The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South.
2. News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.
3. (Law)
Definition: A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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