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 (...) that produce specific effects c (1) : a signal or character (...) representing data (2) : something (...) which justifies change in a construct (...) 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.