information science

Questions about information science

What does information science mean?

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

What is another word for information science?

Close synonyms include informatics, information processing, 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 science a common word?

information science 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.