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Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.

11 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/UK/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/General-American/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/Australia
  1. Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.

    uncountable · usually
  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
  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
  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
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.? Latin fōrma Latin fōrmō Latin īnfōrmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō 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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