How to pronounce “information”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
• Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
• The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
• (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. [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, formally) 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.]
• (computing, data management) The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format. [from late 20th c.]
• (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]

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