Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- IDEF0
- identifier
- identity
- imitative copy
- inactive record
- incoming document
- incoming record
- indication of action
- indication of attachments
- information
- information system
- initialization
- inscription
- instantiation
- instructive record
- intact record
- integrated business and documentary procedures
- integrated definition function modeling method
- integrity
- intellectual content
- intellectual control
- intellectual form
- intellectual property rights
- interactive record
- interactive system
- interactivity
- internal document
- internal record
- interoperability
- intrinsic element
- inventory
- invocation
- item
Term | information
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. Includes (a) a count in an information, and (b) a complaint in respect of which a justice is authorized by an Act of Parliament or an enactment made thereunder to make an order. 2. Information respecting a consumer’s identity, residence, dependents, marital status, employment, borrowing and repayment history, income, assets and liabilities, credit worthiness, education, character, reputation, health, physical or personal characteristics or mode of living. 3. Information in any form including information that is written, photographed, recorded or stored in any manner whatsoever and on file or in the possession or under the control of a department and includes personal information. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., A formal criminal charge made by a prosecutor without a grand-jury indictment. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
- n., An assemblage of data intended for communication either through space or across time.


