selective information

1. 1.

   (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome

   “the signal contained thousands of bits of information”

   Synonymsinformationentropy

   Broaderinformation measure

   communications

Questions about selective information

What does selective information mean?

selective information means "(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome".

What is another word for selective information?

Close synonyms include information, entropy. 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.