Added 9 October 2026
informatics
/ɪnfəˈmætɪks/ noun
In Latin: none, coined in 1967 Coined: 1967 Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about informatics at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information.
Origin
Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic. German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
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