information (n.)

  1. a message received and understood

    [ Syn: info ]

  2. knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

  3. formal accusation of a crime

  4. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; statistical data

    [ Syn: data ]

  5. (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; the signal contained thousands of bits of information

    [ Syn: selective information , entropy ]

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