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Encyclopedia of Semiotics

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Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Language reference, Linguistics
Length:
557 words

A theory of information was first formulated in 1948 by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver as a theory of communication

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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Science and technology, Life Sciences
Length:
26 words

1 communicated or communicable factual knowledge; data; news.

2 genetic information.

3 (in computing) the results obtained by processing

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The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2007
1 Any unit of data or knowledge. 2 The content of a message that serves to reduce uncertainty. 3 In the information processing ... More

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