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1.1Law count nounA charge lodged with a magistrates' court.
‘the tenant may lay an information against his landlord’
‘The rule developed during a period of extreme formality and technicality in the preferring of indictments and laying of informations.’
‘However, the duty of the court is to hear informations which are properly before it.’
‘The Local Court Magistrate quashed and declared void the informations.’
‘When the justices purported to commit the appellant on these informations, they were doing something which in law they had no power to do.’
‘These private informations came before the Justice of the Peace for the pre-hearing required under Section 507.1 of the Criminal Code.’
2What is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.
‘genetically transmitted information’
‘He doesn't ever answer why the system's price conveys the correct global information.’
‘The central characteristic of the genre is accuracy in conveying information about cities and ancient buildings.’
‘The price information was then conveyed back to Europe or other relevant locations.’
‘Topic Maps are useful because they convey more information we can use.’
‘Money is supposed to convey information about the economic value of a product or service.’
‘We need to look outside of the ‘normal channels’ used to convey security information.’
‘I love maps, especially maps that convey information about our world in a novel way.’
‘In general, information about sport was conveyed by newspapers or by word-of-mouth.’
‘Even so, we may still be forced to contemplate changes in the way information is conveyed.’
‘The choice of axioms in a logical system can represent content specific information.’
‘Another official at the agency said its staff tried to convey relevant information quickly this time.’
‘The forms in which information was conveyed were often not transparent or intuitive.’
‘It must sit on something, it must be able to convey its information to somewhere; it must be able to be reset.’
‘Nine times out of ten these calls convey information that no one needs to know.’
‘The bandwidth constraints of the internet force us to find more concise ways to represent information.’
‘The practitioner, in turn, may consciously or unconsciously convey this information to the patient.’
‘Then the scientists measured how much information the songs could convey.’
‘Nearly half are sensory which convey information to the brain; the rest are motor which transmit orders from the brain.’
‘They are physically expressive and convey emotional information through touch.’
‘They convey useful information about the perceived scarcity of the resource.’
2.1Computing Data as processed, stored, or transmitted by a computer.
‘In most computer systems, the information is carried by wires and electronic parts.’
‘Hibernation is when the system stores all the information it has in its memory onto the hard disk, then shuts down.’
‘There is also provision to change the information stored on the battery-operated boards.’
‘All the cards contain a computer chip which stores information, such as what type of meal has been purchased by the pupil.’
‘A desktop machine built three years ago would be enough to store all the information needed.’
‘Bios information is stored inside a chip housed on the computer's motherboard.’
‘The computer can record how accurately information is processed and how quickly.’
‘MPO lets processors store information locally so it is there when they need it, without those latencies.’
‘Although the hardware is still at a very basic stage, the theory of how quantum computers process information is well advanced.’
‘The client software can then be used to keep the information on the handset synchronized with the information stored on the server.’
‘Where does all of this electronic information get stored and how do children process it?’
‘They had to programme their robot by using a computer and downloading the information into the robot via a Lego brick.’
‘You can use a laptop computer to download information about the performance of the machine.’
‘Your computer accesses the information a little at a time, just ahead of what you're listening to.’
‘This takes snapshots of a system's hard disk content and stores the information in a compressed form on a server.’
‘At that price, he reasoned, it would finally be cheaper to store information on computer than it is on paper.’
‘Staff at the Revenue have wide access to computers, which store information on up to 60m people.’
‘Codes act as tags that are placed on data about people to allow the information to be processed by the computer.’
‘All the information was stored by the digital camera when the picture was taken.’
‘They have revealed fears that the information stored on blank discs is vulnerable to being lost within a decade.’
2.2(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.
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).