Illumination vs Information - What's the difference?
illumination | information | Synonyms |
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See illuminate (transitive verb).
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
(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.
(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
(Christianity) Divine inspiration.
(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the .
A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
As contrasted with data, knowledge which is gathered as a result of processing data.
(computing) […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
Illumination is a synonym of information.
As nouns the difference between illumination and information
is that illumination is the act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated while information is information.illumination
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(en-noun)- I need some more information about this issue.
- For your information , I did this because I wanted to.
- And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .