Knowledge vs. Information

Knowledgenoun

The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.

Knowledgenoun

Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.

Knowledgenoun

Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.

Knowledgenoun

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.

Knowledgenoun

(philosophical) Justified true belief

Knowledgenoun

Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge).

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.

Knowledgenoun

The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.

Knowledgenoun

(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Acknowledgement.

Knowledgenoun

(obsolete) Notice, awareness.

Knowledgenoun

The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.

Knowledgeverb

(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.

Knowledgenoun

The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

Knowledgenoun

That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; - chiefly used in the plural.

Knowledgenoun

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.

Knowledgenoun

That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.

Knowledgenoun

Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.

Knowledgenoun

Sexual intercourse; - usually preceded by carnal; same as carnal knowledge.

Knowledgeverb

To acknowledge.

Knowledgenoun

the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Knowledgenoun

facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

Knowledgenoun

the sum of what is known

Knowledgenoun

information held on a computer system.

Knowledgenoun

true, justified belief; certain understanding, as opposed to opinion.

Knowledgenoun

awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

Knowledgenoun

sexual intercourse.

Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts (descriptive knowledge), skills (procedural knowledge), or objects (acquaintance knowledge). By most accounts, knowledge can be acquired in many different ways and from many sources, including but not limited to perception, reason, memory, testimony, scientific inquiry, education, and practice.

Informationnoun

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

Informationnoun

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

Informationnoun

(legal) 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.

Informationnoun

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Informationnoun

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

Informationnoun

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

Informationnoun

(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

Informationnoun

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

Informationnoun

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

Informationnoun

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

Informationnoun

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

Informationnoun

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

Informationnoun

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Informationnoun

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

Informationnoun

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

Informationnoun

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Informationnoun

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

Informationnoun

a message received and understood

Informationnoun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Informationnoun

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

Informationnoun

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Informationnoun

formal accusation of a crime

Information

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.