information

Etymology

From Middle English informacion, enformacion, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”).

noun

1. That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
   I need some more information about this issue.
3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
   For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
4. (law, countable) 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.
   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, page 131
5. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
6. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
7. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
8. (computing, formally) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
9. (Christianity) Divine inspiration.
10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
11. (information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
12. As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
13. (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).