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Info.

Info. is the abbreviation of information.

Meaning of information

Noun

information (usually uncountable, plural informations)

  1. (usually) Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.
    • And now we come to the third keystone, information.⁸ Information may be thought of as a reduction in entropy—as the ingredient that distinguishes an orderly, structured system from the vast set of random, useless ones.⁹ Imagine pages of random characters tapped out by a monkey at a typewriter, or a...2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin, →ISBN
  2. (usually) Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
    • I need some more information about this issue.
  3. (usually) The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
    • For your information, I did this because I wanted to.
  4. (countable, usually) 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.
    • That friend, […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing...1830, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Concerning the Right Idea of the Constitution”, in On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each: […], London: Hurst, Chance, and Co....
  5. (obsolete, usually) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
  6. (archaic, usually) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

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Questions about Info.

What is Info. the abbreviation of?
Info. is the abbreviation of information.

Words near Info. in the dictionary

  1. info-age
  2. info-dump
  3. info-dumped
  4. info-dumping
  5. info-dumps
  6. Info.
  7. infoanarchist
  8. infoanarchists
  9. infobahn
  10. infobahns
  11. infobesity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Info. (page history and authors); information (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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