Information vs. Uncountable

Informationnoun

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

‘I need some more information about this issue.’;

Uncountableadjective

So many as to be incapable of being counted.

‘The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.’;

Informationnoun

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

‘For your information, I did this because I wanted to.’;

Uncountableadjective

(mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

‘Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.’;

Informationnoun

(legal) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

Uncountableadjective

That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

‘Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.’; ‘One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.’;

Informationnoun

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Uncountablenoun

(grammar) An uncountable noun.

Informationnoun

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

Informationnoun

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

Informationnoun

(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

Informationnoun

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

Informationnoun

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

Informationnoun

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

Informationnoun

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

Informationnoun

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Informationnoun

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

‘The active informations of the intellect.’;

Informationnoun

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

‘Larger opportunities of information.’; ‘He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle.’;

Informationnoun

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

Informationnoun

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Informationnoun

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

Informationnoun

a message received and understood

Informationnoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

‘statistical data’;

Informationnoun

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

Informationnoun

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

‘the signal contained thousands of bits of information’;

Informationnoun

formal accusation of a crime

Information

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.

‘What an entity is’;