cannonball vs information

cannonball

noun
  • The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball. 

  • An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact. 

  • A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon. 

  • Something that moves fast, especially a fast train. 

  • A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight. 

verb
  • To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing. 

  • To career; to move rapidly. 

information

noun
  • The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. 

  • As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data. 

  • Divine inspiration. 

  • Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. 

  • A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment. 

  • Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message). 

  • That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is". 

  • Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit. 

  • […] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation. 

  • A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber. 

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