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Information vs Webform - What's the difference?

information | webform |

As nouns the difference between information and webform

is that information is information while webform is (internet) a collection of user interface components on a website designed to solicit information from a user.

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/]

    Derived terms

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

    Related terms

    * inform * informant * informatics * knowledge

    Statistics

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    webform

    English

    Alternative forms

    * web form, Web form

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet) A collection of user interface components on a website designed to solicit information from a user.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2008, title=A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis, author=R Wright, journal=The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008
    • , passage=While this is longer it is both clearer to understand and to implement as a webform where the user will select an instrument.}}

    Synonyms

    * (soplink), (soplink)

    Hypernyms

    * form

    Usage notes

    * Particularly when capitalized, a WebForm'' may be such a form created by any of several ''WebForms toolkits.

    See also

    * ("webform" on Wikipedia)