information

Knowledge or facts learned, especially about a certain subject or event. synonym: knowledge.

The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge.

Processed, stored, or transmitted data.

A numerical measure of the uncertainty of an experimental outcome.

A formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment in instances in which the offense, if a federal crime, is not a felony or in which the offense, if a state crime, is allowed prosecution in that manner rather than by indictment.

Communication of form or element; infusion, as of an animating or actuating principle.

Knowledge communicated or received; particular intelligence or report; news; notice: as, to get information of a shipwreck.

Knowledge inculcated or derived; known facts or principles, however communicated or acquired, as from reading, instruction, or observation: as, a man of various information; the information gathered from extended travel.

In law:

An official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury. Wharton.