information quantities

noun

UK /ˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃən ˈkwɒntɪtiz/

US /ˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃən ˈkwɑːntətiz/

Information quantities are amounts of information measured in bits.

The engineer compared the information quantities stored in two different files.

SYNONYMS

amounts of information data volumes information measures bit counts

RELATED WORDS

entropy bits data Shannon theory communication

OTHER MEANINGS

2. The mathematical measures of uncertainty or surprise in a message.

Information quantities help scientists describe how unpredictable a signal is.

3. The total number of bits needed to represent a set of data.

Compression reduces the information quantities required to send a picture.

4. Values used in computing to describe how much data a system can hold or transmit.

The network's information quantities were too large for the old cable.