information

noun

• 1facts provided or learned about something or someone:a vital piece of information
• Law a formal criminal charge lodged with a court or magistrate by a prosecutor without the aid of a grand jury:the tenant may lay an information against his landlord

• 2what 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 contrasted with that of alternative sequences.