(computing) The accuracy, consistency and reliability of the information content, processes and systems, especially with regard to database corruption.

plural of information system

Any data processing system, either manual or computerized. / Any telecommunications system whose primary function is to transmit and/or display data.

The time between information becoming available and it being publicly broadcast.

plural of mutual information

plural of information model

(thermodynamics) A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process. / (data processing) A data processor.

(mathematics) A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.

(information theory) A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.

plural of information market