information
English
Etymology
From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”).
Pronunciation
Noun
information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
- That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
- Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
- I need some more information about this issue.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
- For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
- (law) 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. [from 15th c.]
- (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
- (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
- (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
- (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
- As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]
Usage notes
Hyponyms
- boiler-plate information
- disinformation
- misinformation
- perfect information
Derived terms
- disinformation
- FYI
- info
- informational
- informationism
- informationist
- information-processing
- misinformation
Related terms
Translations
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Noun
information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
- (a piece of) information.
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerne |
genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernes |
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/
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Noun
information f (plural informations)
- (countable) piece of information; datum
- Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
- (plural only) news
- Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
- (uncountable) information
- Théorie de l'information.
Synonyms
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
Related terms
Further reading
- “information” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informatiō, informatiōnis.
Pronunciation
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Declension
Declension of information | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | information | informationen | informationer | informationerna |
Genitive | informations | informationens | informationers | informationernas |
Related terms
- info
- informant
- informationsavdelning
- informatör
- informera
- turistinformation