information processing

Questions about information processing

What does information processing mean?

information processing means "the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information".

What is another word for information processing?

Close synonyms include information science, informatics, IP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is information processing a common word?

information processing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.