The Collaborative International Dictionary
Information \In`for*ma"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. informatio representation, conception. See Inform, v. t.]
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The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
The active informations of the intellect.
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Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.
Larger opportunities of information.
--Rogers.He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle.
--Swift. (Law) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.
(Information Theory) A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.
(Computers) Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.
information content \in`for*ma"tion con"tent\, n. information[4].
Usage examples of "information content".
Hamid-Jones could follow it word by word, except for a few unfamiliar expressions, but there seemed to be very little information content in it.
One beat a second is probably the limit of the mechanisms, so no doubt all your efforts now are concentrated on maximizing the information content per shutter operation?
Wesley, you mentioned obtaining paper money, with the purpose of analyzing its information content.
The suite estimated that an hour of such singing could encode a million bits, which was, for comparison, about the information content of Homer’.
At the speed of light, the back-and-forth exchange would have taken the better part of an hour mercifully condensed now to a few seconds by a very conservative computer that wasn't taking any chances of leaving out any information content.
The information content of the video portion is low, but the code is there and it seems to check out as authentic.
The immense interlocking neurological networks of the Eater, spun of sheer gossamer magnetic fields and filmy plasma, had far higher information content than even the human brain, on a pound-for-pound basis.
The suite estimated that an hour of such singing could encode a million bits, which was, for comparison, about the information content of Homer&rsquo.
And we were really fortunate that their scent emissions are used primarily for emphasis, not for information content.
It is almost as if the event horizon of the black hole acts like a hologram by capturing all the information content of the black hole's three-dimensional interior.