Definition of "information" in English

noun

1. Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.

2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

   • I need some more information about this issue.

3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

   • For your information, I did this because I wanted to.

4. (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.

5. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

6. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

7. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

8. (computing, formally) The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

9. (Christianity) Divine inspiration.

10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

11. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

12. (computing, data management) The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.

13. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).