SELECTIVE INFORMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does selective information mean? 

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

1. (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELECTIVE INFORMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

entropy; information; selective information

Context example:

the signal contained thousands of bits of information

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

information measure (a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information)

Domain category:

communication theory; communications (the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.))