information technology

1. 1.

   the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information

   SynonymsIT

   Broaderengineering

Questions about information technology

What does information technology mean?

information technology means "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information".

What is another word for information technology?

Close synonyms include IT. 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 technology a common word?

information technology 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.