information theory
Noun
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Noun
information theory (uncountable)
- (mathematics) A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
- informatics (contradistinction)
- information science (contradistinction)
- French: théorie de l'information
- German: Informationstheorie
- Portuguese: teoria da informação
- Russian: тео́рия информа́ции
- Spanish: teoría de la información
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