INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does information technology mean? 

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (noun)
  The noun INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information

  Familiarity information: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

information technology; IT

Hypernyms ("information technology" is a kind of...):

applied science; engineering; engineering science; technology (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems)

 Context examples 

Includes 8 centers and an informatics and information technology group.

(Cancer Genetics Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Science at the intersection of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive technologies.

(Converging technologies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A center within the National Institutes of Health that provides, coordinates, and manages information technology, and advances computational science within NIH.

(Center for Information Technology, NCI Thesaurus)

The representation, processing, and development of information and information systems; has computational aspects; central notion is the transformation of information; includes the development in information technology, computer science, telematics, telecommunications, etc.

(Informatics, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes terms pertaining to FDA/USP Substance Registration System (SRS), which is to support health information technology initiatives by generating unique ingredient identifiers (UNIIs) for substances in drugs, biologics, foods, and devices.

(FDA Established Names and Unique Ingredient Identifier Codes Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)