INFORMATION THEORY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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