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Carmel NY
carmel_ny at outlook.com
Sun Oct 28 11:13:49 UTC 2018
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:01:42 -0500, Peter Wick stated:
>Information
information noun
in·for·ma·tion | \ˌin-fər-ˈmā-shən
Definition of information
1: the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence
2 a (1): knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction
(2): intelligence, news
(3): facts, data
b: the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more
alternative sequences or arrangements of something (such as nucleotides
in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific
effects
c (1): a signal or character (as in a communication system or
computer) representing data
(2): something (such as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which
justifies change in a construct (such as a plan or theory) that represents
physical or mental experience or another construct
d: a quantitative measure of the content of information
specifically : a numerical quantity that measures the uncertainty
in the outcome of an experiment to be performed
3: the act of informing against a person
4: a formal accusation of a crime made by a prosecuting officer as
distinguished from an indictment presented by a grand jury
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Carmel
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