Definition: Information

By Jack Krupansky

Information is a collection of units of data such as numbers, text, and signal approximations which may be structured in some form such as a sequence or an encoded data structure.

Information is typically stored in some form of container such as a file, database, or a communications channel.

See the Merriam-Webster definition of "information".

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