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information theory

noun

  1. 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

  1. a collection of mathematical theories, based on statistics, concerned with methods of coding, transmitting, storing, retrieving, and decoding information
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information theory

  1. 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.

They are at once originators (emitters, as the information theory model considers them) and receivers.

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