informatics
See also: informàtics
English
Etymology
Coined 1967[1] 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)
- (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
Open compounds
- community informatics
- discovery informatics
- health informatics
- legal informatics
- medical informatics
- nursing informatics
- social informatics
- veterinary informatics
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
branch of information science
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “informatics”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.