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   information

   /ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. facts provided or learned about something or someone: "a vital piece of information"
   • ▪ a charge lodged with a magistrates' court: "the tenant may lay an information against his landlord"
   • 2. what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things: "genetically transmitted information"
   • ▪ data as processed, stored, or transmitted by a computer.
   • ▪ (in information theory) a mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular sequence of symbols, impulses, etc., as against that of alternative sequences.

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘formation of the mind, teaching’), via Old French from Latin informatio(n-), from the verb informare (see inform).

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