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INFORMATION MEASURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("information measure" is a kind of...):
metric; system of measurement (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "information measure"):
entropy; information; selective information ((communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome)
bandwidth (a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel)
baud; baud rate ((computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems)