information (noun)
51information superhighway — ► NOUN ▪ an extensive electronic network such as the Internet, used for the rapid transfer of information in digital form …
52information technology — ► NOUN ▪ the study or use of systems such as computers and telecommunications for storing, retrieving, and sending information …
53information age — noun a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks • Hypernyms: ↑modern era …
54information science — noun the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information • Syn: ↑informatics, ↑information processing, ↑IP • Members of this Topic: ↑queue • Hypernyms: ↑science, ↑ …
55information girl — noun 1. : a telephone operator who gives information from the central office switchboard 2. : a clerk at an information desk …
56information — noun Date: 14th century 1. the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence 2. a. (1) knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction (2) intelligence, news (3) facts, data b. the attribute inherent in and communicated by… …
57information theory — noun Date: 1950 a theory that deals statistically with information, with the measurement of its content in terms of its distinguishing essential characteristics or by the number of alternatives from which it makes a choice possible, and with the… …
58information highway — noun see information superhighway …
59information modeling — noun The process of creating information model. See Also: data modeling …
60information entropy — noun A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable ; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable ; usually in units such as bits. A passphrase is similar to… …
