EGAVE

information

About 274.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
  2. noun Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    I need some more information about this issue.
  3. noun The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
    For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
  4. noun 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. noun The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  6. noun The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
  7. noun The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
  8. noun The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

Similar words

info data entropy selective information identification informative informing indication knowledge education

Often followed by

about on and is to in that from for

Word family

informational informationally informations

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