Info
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Short form of the word information.
Information
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.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.Divine inspiration.The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.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.
Example sentence: What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.