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knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news.

knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data.

the act or fact of informing.

an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public.

Directory Assistance.

Law.��

1. an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury.

2. a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily.

3. the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime.

(in information theory) an indication of the number of possible choices of messages, expressible as the value of some monotonic function of the number of choices, usually the logarithm to the base 2.

Computers.��

1. important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program.

   Using the input data, we have come up with some significant new information.

2. data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.).