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INFORMATION THEORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does information theory mean?
• INFORMATION THEORY (noun)
The noun INFORMATION THEORY has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
Familiarity information: INFORMATION THEORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("information theory" is a kind of...):
scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Context examples
Information theory does not directly deal with meaning or content, but with physical representations that have meaning or content.
(Information and Communication Theory, NCI Thesaurus)
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