Information vs Comprehension - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between information and comprehension

is that information is 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 while comprehension is the totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.

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

Usage notes

* The definition of information in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary which, though formally accepted, is largely ignored by the computing profession that should be adhering to it.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/]

Derived terms

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (information)

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English

Noun

(en noun)

thorough understanding

(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.

(computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages

Synonyms

* understanding