information
information Lexical Profile
information Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Facts, details, or knowledge provided or learned about a particular person, event, or subject.
"Please read the brochure for further information about the museum's opening hours."
Data processed, stored, or transmitted by a computer or telecommunications system, or a quantitative measure of the content of a message in information theory.
"Optical fibers can transmit vast amounts of digital information across continents in milliseconds."
A formal criminal charge or accusation lodged with a court or magistrate by a prosecutor without the indictment of a grand jury.
"The district attorney filed an information charging the defendant with misdemeanor tax evasion."
Word Nuance & Usage
In standard English, 'information' is an uncountable (mass) noun that never takes the plural form 'informations' or the indefinite article 'an'; to refer to a single item, use phrases such as 'a piece of information' or 'an item of information'.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French information, from Latin informatio ('outline, concept, idea'), a noun of action from informare ('to train, instruct, educate; literally, to give form or shape to the mind').