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/ˌɪn.fəˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ UK
/ˌɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃn̩/ US
/ˌɪn.fəˈmæɪ.ʃən/ Australia

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

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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.

noun informations

uncountable, usually Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity. 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
uncountable, usually Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. I need some more information about this issue.
uncountable, usually The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
countable, usually 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. 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
obsolete, uncountable, usually The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
archaic, uncountable, usually The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
archaic, uncountable, usually The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
formal, uncountable, usually The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
uncountable, usually Divine inspiration. But there was no information, and so we continued And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
uncountable, usually A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
uncountable, usually Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
uncountable, usually The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.
uncountable, usually Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

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