noun
Meaning 1
Synonym of computer science.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: computer science
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
informatics
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/
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General-American: /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/
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General-American: [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]
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rhymes with -ætɪks
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N F ER0 M AE1 T IH0 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 2
A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: information science, information processing, IP
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: science, scientific discipline
Narrower terms: natural language processing, NLP, human language technology, cybernetics
History
Etymology
Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: informatikë — branch of information science
- Arabic: مَعْلُومَاتِيَّة (maʕlūmātiyya) — branch of information science
- Armenian: ինֆորմատիկա (informatika) — branch of information science
- Azerbaijani: informatika — branch of information science
- Belarusian: інфарма́тыка (infarmátyka) — branch of information science
- Bulgarian: информа́тика (informátika) — branch of information science
- Catalan: informàtica — branch of information science
- Chinese Mandarin: 信息學 /信息学 (xìnxīxué) — branch of information science
- Chinese Mandarin: 資訊學 /资讯学 (zīxùnxué) — branch of information science
- Chinese Mandarin: 情報學 /情报学 (qíngbàoxué) — branch of information science
- Czech: informatika — branch of information science
- Danish: informatik — branch of information science
- Dutch: informatica — branch of information science
- Esperanto: informatiko — branch of information science
- Estonian: informaatika — branch of information science
- Finnish: informatiikka — branch of information science
- French: science de l'information — branch of information science
- French: informatique — branch of information science
- Georgian: ინფორმატიკა (inpormaṭiḳa) — branch of information science
- German: Informatik — branch of information science
- Greek: πληροφορική (pliroforikí) — branch of information science
- Hindi: सूचना विज्ञान (sūcnā vijñān) — branch of information science
- Hungarian: informatika — branch of information science
- Hungarian: információtechnológia — branch of information science
- Indonesian: informatika — branch of information science
- Irish: faisnéisíocht — branch of information science
- Italian: informatica — branch of information science
- Japanese: 情報学 (jōhōgaku) — branch of information science
- Japanese: インフォマティクス (infomatikusu) — branch of information science
- Kabyle: tasenselkimt — branch of information science
- Kazakh: ақпараттану (aqparattanu) — branch of information science
- Kazakh: ақпаратнама (aqparatnama) — branch of information science
- Kazakh: информатика (informatika) — branch of information science
- Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (pɔədɑɑmiən vityiə) — branch of information science
- Korean: 정보학 (jeongbohak) — branch of information science
- Korean: 인포메틱스 (inpometikseu) — branch of information science
- Kyrgyz: билметануу (bilmetanuu) — branch of information science
- Kyrgyz: информатика (informatika) — branch of information science
- Latvian: informātika — branch of information science
- Lithuanian: informatika — branch of information science
- Macedonian: информатика (informatika) — branch of information science
- Mongolian: мэдээлэл зүй (medeelel züj) — branch of information science
- Norwegian Bokmål: informatikk — branch of information science
- Norwegian Nynorsk: informatikk — branch of information science
- Iranian Persian: اَنْفورْماتیک (anformâtik) — branch of information science
- Polish: informatyka — branch of information science
- Portuguese: informática — branch of information science
- Romanian: informatică — branch of information science
- Russian: информа́тика (informátika) — branch of information science
- Serbo-Croatian: информа̀тика — branch of information science
- Serbo-Croatian: informàtika — branch of information science
- Sicilian: nfurmàtica — branch of information science
- Slovak: informatika — branch of information science
- Slovene: informatika — branch of information science
- Spanish: informática — branch of information science
- Swedish: informatik — branch of information science
- Tajik: информатика (informatika) — branch of information science
- Tatar: информатика (informatiqa) — branch of information science
- Turkish: bilişim — branch of information science
- Turkish: informatik — branch of information science
- Turkmen: informatika — branch of information science
- Ukrainian: інформа́тика (informátyka) — branch of information science
- Urdu: اِطِّلاعِیات (ittilā'iyāt) — branch of information science
- Uzbek: informatika — branch of information science
- Vietnamese: tin học — branch of information science
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