Information vs Discovery - What's the difference?

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Information is a related term of discovery.

As nouns the difference between information and discovery

is that information is information while discovery is something discovered.

information

English

Noun

(en-noun)

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

I need some more information about this issue.

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

For your information , I did this because I wanted to.

(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.

And as you can see in this slide, we then take the raw data and convert it into information .

(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/]

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discovery

English

Noun

Something discovered.

This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.

(uncountable) The discovering of new things.

The purpose of the voyage was discovery .

automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser

(legal, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery .

(legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.