information
/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ noun A1- 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. · I need some more information about this issue.
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. · For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
- 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.
- The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- Divine inspiration.
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
- Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
Plural informations
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“The usurper landed in France, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan, two hundred and fifty leagues from Paris, on the 1st of March, and you only acquired this information today, the 3rd of March!
Have you neglected to obtain information on that point?
“I am, sir,” said the king, much agitated; “and recently we have had information that the Bonapartist clubs have had meetings in the Rue Saint-Jacques.
de Villefort,” said Louis XVIII., “the Duc de Blacas assures me you have some interesting information to communicate.”
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