information

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
2. (uncountable, usually) Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
3. (uncountable, usually) The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
4. (countable, usually) 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.
5. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
6. (archaic, uncountable, usually) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
7. (archaic, uncountable, usually) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
8. (formal, uncountable, usually) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
9. (uncountable, usually) Divine inspiration.
10. (uncountable, usually) A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
11. (uncountable, usually) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
12. (uncountable, usually) As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
13. (uncountable, usually) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Synonyms

news

📰

knowledge

report

data

intelligence

message

notice

tidings

communication

account

notification

announcement

advice

info

word

facts

statement

story

history

voice

sound

🔉

intimation

noise

rumour

reference

inquiry

instruction

description

datum

observation

awareness

education

selective information

guidance

rumor

notify

experience

evidence

narrative

entropy

material

inform

letter

detail

cause

denunciation

declaration

case

business

identification

Translations

information

información

Information

informazione

informatie

renseignement

informação

πληροφορία

Auskunft

informació

bilgi

Nachricht

📰

Mitteilung

Benachrichtigung

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: informacion

In summary

From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform + -ation.

Sentences

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Behan was acting on information received from some of the victims .

It's extremely suspicious that there's no information about brains that didn't come from a brain .