information

noun

• That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
• 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."

• 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.
• The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.
• The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
• The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
• […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
• Divine inspiration.
• A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.
• Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.
• As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.
• (information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).