Noun

(en noun)

The act of observing, and the fact of being observed.

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The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting.

A remark or comment.

* Shakespeare

That's a foolish observation .

* Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make / We grow more partial for the observer's sake.

A judgement based on observing.

Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.

* Jeremy Taylor

We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances.

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.