informatics

See also: informàtics

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/, [ˌɪnfɚˈmæɾɪks]

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧for‧mat‧ics
• Rhymes: -ætɪks

Noun

informatics (uncountable)

1. (computing) 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.

Hyponyms

(Affixed forms and closed compounds):

• bioinformatics
• ecoinformatics
• geomatics
• hydroinformatics
• lengthioinformatics
• nanoinformatics
• neuroinformatics

(Open compounds):

• community informatics
• discovery informatics
• health informatics
• legal informatics
• medical informatics
• nursing informatics
• social informatics
• veterinary informatics

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• informatic

Translations

branch of information science

• Albanian: informatikë f
• Arabic: مَعْلُومَاتِيَّة f (maʕlūmātiyya)
• Armenian: ինֆորմատիկա (hy) (informatika)
• Azerbaijani: informatika (az)
• Belarusian: інфарма́тыка f (infarmátyka)
• Bulgarian: информа́тика f (informátika)
• Catalan: informàtica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息學 / 信息学 (zh) (xìnxīxué), (Taiwan) 資訊學 / 资讯学 (zīxùnxué)

• Czech: informatika (cs) f
• Danish: informatik c
• Dutch: informatica (nl) f
• Esperanto: informatiko sg
• Estonian: informaatika
• Finnish: informatiikka
• French: science de l’information f, informatique (fr) m
• Georgian: ინფორმატიკა (inpormaṭiḳa)
• German: Informatik (de) f
• Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
• Hindi: सूचना विज्ञान m (sūcnā vijñān)
• Hungarian: informatika (hu), információtechnológia (hu)
• Indonesian: informatika (id)
• Irish: faisnéisíocht f
• Italian: informatica (it) f
• Japanese: 情報学 (ja) (じょうほうがく, jōhōgaku), インフォマティクス (infomatikusu)
• Kazakh: ақпараттану (kk) (aqparattanu), ақпаратнама (aqparatnama), информатика (informatika)
• Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (pɔədɑɑmiən vityiə)
• Korean: 정보학(情報學) (jeongbohak), 인포메틱스 (inpometikseu)
• Kyrgyz: билметануу (bilmetanuu), информатика (ky) (informatika)
• Latvian: informātika f
• Lithuanian: informatika (lt) f
• Macedonian: информатика f (informatika)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мэдээлэл зүй (medeelel züj)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: informatikk (no) m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنْفورْماتیک (fa) (anformâtik)

• Polish: informatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: informática (pt) f
• Romanian: informatică (ro) f
• Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: информа̀тика f

  Roman: informàtika (sh) f

• Sicilian: nfurmàtica f
• Slovak: informatika (sk) f
• Slovene: informatika f
• Spanish: informática (es) f
• Swedish: informatik (sv) c
• Tajik: информатика (tg) (informatika)
• Tatar: информатика (informatika)
• Turkish: bilişim (tr), informatik (tr)
• Turkmen: informatika (tk)
• Ukrainian: інформа́тика (uk) f (informátyka)
• Urdu: اِطِّلاعِیات f pl (ittilā'iyāt)
• Uzbek: informatika (uz)
• Vietnamese: tin học (vi) (信學)