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usually uncountable, plural informations
That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is". examples
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. examples
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. examples
(law, countable) 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. quotations examples
On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 131
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
(now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
(now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
(computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation. examples
(Christianity) Divine inspiration. examples
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. examples
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. examples
As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. examples
(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).