Noun

(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.

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(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.

* Macaulay

The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.

* 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)

The first step I took in this so necessary a research , was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution

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.