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informatics

Syllabification: (in·for·mat·ics)
Pronunciation: /ˌinfərˈmatiks/
Definition of informatics

noun

[treated as singular] Computing
  • the science of processing data for storage and retrieval; information science.

Origin:

1960s: from information + -ics, translating Russian informatika

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