INFORMATION SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does information science mean? 

• INFORMATION SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun INFORMATION SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

  Familiarity information: INFORMATION SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMATION SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

informatics; information processing; information science; IP

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))

 Context examples 

In information science, an explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships among them.

(Ontology, NCI Thesaurus)

An occupational discipline which unites information science with computer science.

(Informatics, NCI Thesaurus)