information

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/    美 /ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/|/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity. uncountable,usually
    — And now we come to the third keystone, information.⁸ Information may be thought of as a reduction in entropy—as the ingredient that distinguishes an orderly, structured system from the vast set of random, useless ones.⁹ Imagine pages of random characters tapped out by a monkey at a typewriter, or a stretch of white noise from a radio tuned between channels, or a screenful of confetti from a corrupted computer file. Each of these objects can take trillions of different forms, each as boring as the next. But now suppose that the devices are controlled by a signal that arranges the characters or sound waves or pixels into a pattern that correlates with something in the world: the Declaration of Independence, the opening bars of “Hey Jude,” a cat wearing sunglasses. We say that the signal transmits information about the Declaration or the song or the cat.¹⁰
  2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. uncountable,usually
    — I need some more information about this issue.
  3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. uncountable,usually
    — For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
  4. 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. countable,usually
    — That friend, […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.
  5. The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. obsolete,uncountable,usually
  6. The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. archaic,uncountable,usually
  7. The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. archaic,uncountable,usually
  8. The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation. formal,uncountable,usually
  9. Divine inspiration. uncountable,usually
    — But there was no information, and so we continued And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
  10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. uncountable,usually
  11. Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. uncountable,usually
  12. The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format. uncountable,usually
  13. Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). uncountable,usually

词形变化

informations plural

词汇关系

下位词
boiler-plate information disinformation misinformation perfect information
衍生词
advermation aesthetic information Akaike information criterion bioinformation black information chief information officer counterinformation cyberinformation disinformation esthetic information Fisher information flight information region for your information freedom of information FYI geographic information science geographic information system geoinformation hyperinformation info infobesity infocommunications infodemic infoganda infohazard infomediary infomercial informational information and communications technology information arbitrage information assurance information deficit model information design information desk information drive information engine information entropy information fatigue information fatigue syndrome information float information hazard information hiding information highway information impactedness information integrity informationism informationist informationization informationize informationless information literacy information management information market information modeling information processing information radiator information scent information silo information space information studies information technology bubble information-theoretic death information warfare informetrics infotainment infotisement infotopia infoxication inside information library and information science low-information malinformation metainformation misinformation mutual information neuroinformation noninformation outformation patient information leaflet postinformation public information officer quantum information science quantum information theory sensitive compartmented information Shannon information superinformation super-information too much information transinformation uninformation which-path information white information English terms starting with
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词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Late Latin in-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Late Latin fōrma
Late Latin fōrmō
Late Latin īnfōrmō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin īnfōrmātiōder.
Middle English enformacioun
English information
From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform + -ation.
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