Definitions

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  • adjective Designed to or able to impart information.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or having the nature of information

Etymologies

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information +‎ -al

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Examples

  • We -- they're forming what they call informational pickets on the issue of illegal immigration and our border security crisis.

    CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006 2006

  • "Before they have language, infants pay attention to what I call informational hotspots," where their mother or father is looking, said Andrew N. Meltzoff, a psychologist who is co-director of university's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • I know there has been something of a movement for blog reviewers to tell readers the source of a book being reviewed (ARC, from the library, bought, etc.) but I'm not sure that informational is in itself helpful unless the reader also knows what books in general the reviewer is seeing.

    This is why I don't have a blogroll. Or friends. Roger Sutton 2007

  • Encoding learning in structure is a robust technique for long-term informational storage.

    Of Microbes and Men 2009

  • I now blog at battleoftheants.blogspot.com that untitled informational meme

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • From the article, Although there are no restrictions on what a dot-info site may be used for, Afilias is pitching the domain as better suited for so-called informational sites than for commercial ones.

    4717681 « ResourceShelf 2001

  • From the article, Although there are no restrictions on what a dot-info site may be used for, Afilias is pitching the domain as better suited for so-called informational sites than for commercial ones.

    July « 2001 « ResourceShelf 2001

  • According to The New York Times, the doctors are not deliberately misinforming their patients; instead, they're the victims of something known as the informational cascade, which turns out to be something that's repeated so many times that it becomes true even though it isn't.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • However, cryonics recognizes another concept, the so-called informational death when all data is erased on the molecular level.

    Pravda.Ru 2010

  • However, cryonics recognizes another concept, the so-called informational death when all data is erased on the molecular level.

    Pravda.Ru 2010

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