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information (iou)



information noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin informatio(n-), from informat- pa. ppl stem of informare INFORM verb: see -ATION.]
I.
Formation or moulding of the mind or character; Training, instruction, teaching. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. An instruction. LME-M18.
c. Divine instruction; inspiration. LME-M16.
Communication of the knowledge of some fact or occurrence. LME.
G. Borrow For your information, however, I will tell you that it is not.
Knowledge or facts communicated about a particular subject, event, etc.; intelligence, news. LME.
inside information: see INSIDE adjective. white information: see WHITE adjective.
C. G. Wolff Edith Wharton began to collect background information for an historical novel. W. Wharton Can you give me any information about the patient? You were close to him. B. Emecheta Missy screamed in excitement at this piece of information.
b. An item of news; (in early use) an account (of something). E16-M19.
c. Without necessary relation to a recipient: that which inheres in or is represented by a particular arrangement, sequence, or set, that may be stored in, transferred by, and responded to by inanimate things; Math. a statistically defined quantity representing the probability of occurrence of a symbol, sequence, message, etc., as against a number of possible alternatives. E20.
Nature The precise sequence of the bases is the code which carries the genetical information.
Law.
a. A formal (written) statement or accusation presented to a court or magistrate in order to institute criminal proceedings. LME.
b. A statement of the facts of a civil claim presented by the Attorney-General or Other officer on behalf of the Crown. E17.
c. Scots Law (now Hist.). A written argument on a criminal case ordered by the High Court of Justiciary if the case raises difficult points of law or (formerly) by a Lord Ordinary in the Court of Session when reporting to the Inner House. Now rare. L17.
The action of informing against, charging, or accusing a person. obsolete exc. as a transf. use of sense 4a. L15.
II.
The giving of a form or essential character to something; inspiration (as of the body by the soul). M17-L19.
Comb.: information booth, information bureau, information centre, information desk: where information is given and questions answered; information officer a person engaged in the provision of specialized information; information processing the processing of information so as to yield new or more useful information; information retrieval the tracing of information stored in books, Computers, etc.; information revolution (the economic and industrial impact of) the increase in the availability of information and the changes in its storage and dissemination owing to the use of Computers; information room a Communications centre within a police station where information is collected and disseminated; information science (the branch of knowledge that deals with) the storage, retrieval, and dissemination of (esp. scientific or technical) information; information scientist a person employed to provide an information service; a person who studies the methods used to do so; an expert in or student of information science; information superhighway: see SUPERHIGHWAY 2; information technologist an expert in or student of information technology; information technology technology that deals with the storage, processing, and dissemination of information esp. using Computers; information theory the quantitative theory, based on a precise definition of information and the theory of probability, of the coding and transmission of signals and information.
informational adjective of or pertaining to information; conveying information: E19.
informationally adverb M20.

hyperisotonic (medicine)


hyperisotonic -->
hypertonic


Of a fluid, sufficiently concentrated to cause osmotic shrinkage of cells immersed in it. Note that a mildly hyperosmotic solution is not necessarily hypertonic for viable cells, that are capable of regulating their volumes by active transport.

See: hypotonic, isotonic.