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INFORMATION SCIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Synonyms:
informatics; information processing; information science; IP
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("information science" is a kind of...):
science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)
Meronyms (parts of "information science"):
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Domain member category:
queue ((information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "information science"):
human language technology; natural language processing; NLP (the branch of information science that deals with natural language information)
cybernetics ((biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems))
