1. (

• information ,
• info

) a message received and understood ;

2. (

• information

) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction ;

3. (

• information ,

) formal accusation of a crime ;

4. (

• data ,
• information

) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" ;

5. (

• information ,
• selective_information ,
• entropy ,

) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" ;