erudition vs information

erudition

noun
  • Profound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship. 

  • The refinement, polish and knowledge that education confers. 

information

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

  • The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification. 

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

  • Divine inspiration. 

  • 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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