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information theory
noun
- the mathematical theory concerned with the content, transmission, storage, and retrieval of information, usually in the form of messages or data, and especially by means of computers.
information theory
noun
- a collection of mathematical theories, based on statistics, concerned with methods of coding, transmitting, storing, retrieving, and decoding information
information theory
- A branch of mathematics that mathematically defines and analyzes the concept of information. Information theory involves statistics and probability theory, and applications include the design of systems that have to do with data transmission, encryption, compression, and other information processing.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of information theory1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
But information theory turned out to have applications far removed from communications systems.
From The Daily Beast
They are at once originators (emitters, as the information theory model considers them) and receivers.
From Project Gutenberg
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