informatics
nounUK /ɪnfəˈmætɪks/ · US /ˌɪnfəɹˈmætɪks/
Etymology Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
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Synonym of computer science.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- archaeoinformatics, astroinformatics, biblioinformatics, cheminformatics, chemoinformatics, geoinformatics, glycoinformatics, immunoinformatics, informaticist, pharmacoinformatics, phyloinformatics, teleinformatics, terminotics
- Related terms
- informatic
- Hyponyms
- bioinformatics, ecoinformatics, geomatics, hydroinformatics, lengthioinformatics, nanoinformatics, neuroinformatics, community informatics, discovery informatics, health informatics, legal informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, social informatics, veterinary informatics