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information
English
Etymology
From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin ?nf?rm?ti? (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of ?nform?re (“to inform”). Compare West Frisian ynformaasje (“information”), Dutch informatie (“information”), German Information (“information”), Danish information (“information”), Swedish information (“information”), Norwegian informasjon (“information”).Morphologically inform +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??nf??me???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nf??me???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
information (usually uncountable, plural informations)
- That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
- Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]
- The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. [from 14th c.]
- (law) 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. [from 15th c.]
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- On May 21, 1792, the Attorney General filed an information against Paine charging him with seditious libel.
- 1968, Carl B. Cone, The English Jacobins, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 131:
- (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation. [14th-17th c.]
- (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training. [from 14th c.]
- (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation. [from 17th c.]
- (computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
- (Christianity) Divine inspiration. [from 15th c.]
- A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. [from 20th c.]
- (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. [from 20th c.]
- As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. [from late 20th c.]
- (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). [from late 20th c.]
Usage notes
- The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “information”.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- information on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- information at OneLook Dictionary Search
- information in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- information in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.
Noun
information c (singular definite informationen, plural indefinite informationer)
- (a piece of) information.
Inflection
Derived terms
- kontaktinformation
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f??.ma.sj??/
Noun
information f (plural informations)
- (countable) piece of information; datum
- Cette information nous est parvenue hier soir.
- (plural only) news
- Tous les jours, il regarde la télé le midi pour suivre les informations.
- (uncountable) information
- Théorie de l'information.
Synonyms
- (piece of information): donnée, nouvelle
- (news): nouvelles
- (information): renseignement
Derived terms
- autoroute de l'information
- lettre d’information
- relevé d'informations
- société de l’information
Related terms
- informateur, infomatrice
- informaticien
- informatif
- informationnel
- informatique
- informatiser
- informer
Further reading
- “information” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin informati?, informati?nis.
Pronunciation
Noun
information c
- information
Declension
Related terms
- info
- informant
- informationsavdelning
- informatör
- informera
- turistinformation
information From the web:
- what information is indexed by the graph
- what information is published in the congressional record
- what information does an sds contain
- what information does a molecular formula provide
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- what information is needed for a wire transfer
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pointer
English
Etymology
point +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??nt?/
- Hyphenation: point?er
- Rhymes: -??nt?(?)
Noun
pointer (plural pointers)
- Anything that points or is used for pointing.
- A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.
- Synonym: fescue
- Hyponym: yad
- A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
- Synonyms: hand, needle
- (hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- Most of the early wirehaired pointers represented a combination of Griffon, Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, and German Shorthair. The Pudelpointer was a cross between a Poodle dog and an English Pointer bitch; the Griffon and the Stichelhaar were composed of Pointer, Foxhound, Pudelpointer, and a Polish water dog.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- (programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
- Synonym: reference
- Hyponyms: dangling pointer, function pointer, null pointer
- (graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.
- Synonym: cursor
- 1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley ?ISBN, page 231:
- The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing the appearance of the pointer. System-busy pointers usually adopt a timepiece metaphor.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.
- Synonym: advice
- (in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.
Translations
See also
- (programming) dereference, address
Further reading
- pointer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (user interface) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Petrino, Petroni, interop, protein, pterion, repoint, tropein, tropine
Dutch
Etymology
From English pointer.
Pronunciation
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers, diminutive pointertje n)
- (programming) pointer
French
Etymology 1
point +? -er, from the past participle of poindre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.te/
- Homophones: pointai, pointé, pointée, pointées, pointés, pointez
- Rhymes: -e
Verb
pointer
- to point to/at
- (by extension) to indicate, to show, to point out
- to punch in, to clock in
- (informal, takes a reflexive pronoun) to show up, turn up
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to show up): arriver
Derived terms
- pointage
- pointer du doigt
- zéro pointé
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pointer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.t??/
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (dog)
Further reading
- “pointer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (breed of hunting dog)
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