| information gathering | the act of collecting information |
information warfare
IW | the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries, not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare |
backdrop
background
backcloth | scenery hung at back of stage |
background desktop
screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
data system
information system | system consisting of the network of all communication channels used within an organization |
| superhighway information superhighway | an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form |
| background | a person's social heritage: previous experience or training, he is a lawyer with a sports background |
information
selective information
entropy | (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome, the signal contained thousands of bits of information |
noise level
background level | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
| information | knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction |
| background background knowledge | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem, the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident |
background
ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground, he posed her against a background of rolling hills |
| information theory | (computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing |
information technology
IT | the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information |
information science
informatics
information processing
IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
| information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability |
electronic database
on-line database
computer database
electronic information service | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
information
info | a message received and understood |
details
inside information | true confidential information, after the trial he gave us the real details |
| intelligence intelligence information | secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy), we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage |
tip
lead steer
confidential information
wind
hint | an indication of potential opportunity, he got a tip on the stock market, a good lead for a job |
| insider information | important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public, use for personal profit is illegal |
| information bulletin | a bulletin containing the latest information |
| information | formal accusation of a crime |
| background | relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation, when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background |
background
background signal | extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured, they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals |
background noise
ground noise | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |
| background radiation | radiation coming from sources other than those being observed |
National Technical Information Service
NTIS | an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information |
Defense Technical Information Center
DTIC | the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors |
Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA | a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
data
information | a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn, statistical data |
cosmic background radiation
CBR
cosmic microwave background radiation
CMBR
cosmic microwave background
CMB | (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about . kelvin |
background processing
backgrounding | the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
| information measure | a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information |
setting
background
scope | the state of the environment in which a situation exists, you can't do that in a university setting |
| information age | a period beginning in the last quarter of the th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks |
background
play down
downplay | understate the importance or quality of, he played down his royal ancestry |