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Look up: Information

  1. Information
    Data which has been recorded, classified, organized, related or interpreted within a framework so that meaning emerges.
    Found on http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/glossaryd

  2. information
    [n] - formal accusation of a crime 2. [n] - a message received and understood that reduces the recipient`s uncertainty 3. [n] - knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction 4. [n] - (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. information
    A logarithmic measure of improbability. See Marijke's introductory article. The amount of information there is to be known about a system is what constitutes its entropy.
    Found on http://www.maxwellian.demon.co.uk/faq/gl

  4. Information
    All ideas, data, and imaginative works of the mind, which have been communicated, recorded, published and/or distributed formally or informally in any format
    Found on http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mg1.htm#

  5. information
    (data) The result of applying data processing to data, giving it context and meaning. Information can then be further processed to yeild knowledge. People or computers can find patterns in data to perceive information, and information can be used to enhance knowledge. Since knowledge is prerequisite to wisdom, we always want more data and informa…
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  6. information
    the meaning that a human being assigns to data by means of the conventions applied to that data Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Information
    Definition (undergraduate level) The information content of a string of data is inversely related to the probability of receiving that data by chance. So a very highly organised, unusual string has high information content, but a very disordered one has low information content. This is quite like the idea of entropy in thermodynamics.
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  8. Information
    In`for·ma"tion noun [ French, from Latin informatio representation, conception. See Inform , transitive verb ] 1. The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. « The active informations of the intellect.» South. 2. News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study an …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/56

  9. information
    selective information noun (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; `the signal contained thousands of bits of information`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. information
    info noun a message received and understood
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. information
    noun knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. Information
    `Information` is the result of processing, gathering, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the receiver. In other words, it is the context in which data is taken. Information as a concept bears a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information

  13. Information
    `Information` is the result of processing, gathering, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the receiver. In other words, it is the context in which data is taken. Information as a concept bears a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information

  14. information
    Relevant terms: meet, stopping rule. Contexts: fields
    Found on http://www.econterms.com/glossary.cgi?qu

  15. Information
    • (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment. • (v. t.) Th...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. information
    (from the article `animal communication`) The information involved in animal communication can come from many sources; any facet of the environment perceived is considered information. In ... ...unpalatable ones, thus surviving by providing predators with false information. The predators, of course, are under evolutionary pressure to .....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/22

  17. information
    (from the article `indictment`) ...if the prescribed penalties include imprisonment for more than three months. In the United States the indictment is only one of three principal ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/22

  18. information
    information 1. Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction. 2. Knowledge of specific events or situations that has been gathered or received by communication; intelligence or news. 3. A collection of facts or data; such as, statistical information. 4. The act of informing or the condition of being informed; the communication of knowledge. 5....
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  19. information
    knowledge concerning objects, such as facts, events, things, processes, or ideas, including concepts, that within a certain context has a particular meaning
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  20. information
    intelligence or knowledge capable of being represented in forms suitable for communication, storage or processing NOTE - Information may be represented for example by signs, symbols, pictures or sounds.
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

  21. information
    intelligence or knowledge capable of being represented in forms suitable for communication, storage or processing NOTE - information may be represented for example by signs, symbols, pictures or sounds.
    Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/

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21 November 2008

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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