informatics
Noun
- the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
- A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
Origin / Etymology
Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Synonyms
information processing, information science, IP
Scrabble Score: 18
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Words With Friends Score: 21
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