Information is facts told or found out about something. Useful information, ask for information, an information sheet.
It is uncountable, so a piece of information rather than an information, which is one of the commonest errors for learners. In computing it is measured in bits, and the whole theory of it starts from how much a message reduces uncertainty.
1nouninformationFacts told or found out about something.
“For more information about opening times, please visit our website.”
information is facts.
Latin informatio means a forming or an idea, from informare, to shape — in plus forma, a shape.
Middle English
enformacioun
English, today
information
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From Middle English enformacioun. From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA