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informatics

noun
/ɪnfəˈmætɪks/UK/ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/US

Etymology

Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.

  1. derived from īnfōrmātiō
  2. derived from information
  3. derived from informacioun
  4. inherited from enformacioun
  5. suffixed as informatics — “information + ics”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of computer science.

  2. A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of…

    A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.

The neighborhood

Derived

archaeoinformatics, astroinformatics, biblioinformatics, cheminformatics, chemoinformatics, geoinformatics, glycoinformatics, immunoinformatics, informaticist, pharmacoinformatics, phyloinformatics, teleinformatics, terminotics

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for informatics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA