informatics
See also: informàtics
English
Etymology
Coined 1967[1] from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Noun
informatics (uncountable)
- (computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Hyponyms
- bioinformatics
- community informatics
- ecoinformatics
- health informatics
- hydroinformatics
- legal informatics
- nanoinformatics
- neuroinformatics
- nursing informatics
- social informatics
- veterinary informatics
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
branch of information science
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References
- “informatics” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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