Noun

The act of receiving.

(uncountable, electronics) The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

We have poor TV reception in the valley.

The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

After the wedding we proceeded to the reception .

A reaction.

The ambassador's jokes met a cold reception .

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The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

(UK, education) The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

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.