information

noun

1. Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
2. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
3. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
4. 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.
5. The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
6. The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
7. The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
8. The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
9. Divine inspiration.
10. A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
11. Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
12. The output resulting from the systematic collection, manipulation and organization of raw data into a structured, interpretable format.
13. Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).