information

 
Pronunciation: /ɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1facts provided or learned about something or someone: a vital piece of information
  • [count noun] Law a charge lodged with a magistrates' court: 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 against that of alternative sequences.

Derivatives

informational

adjective

informationally

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English (also in the sense 'formation of the mind, teaching'), via Old French from Latin informatio(n-), from the verb informare (see inform)