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单词 informatics
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informaticsn.

Brit. /ˌɪnfəˈmatɪks/, U.S. /ˌɪnfərˈmædɪks/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Russian lexical item. Etymons: information n., -ic suffix.
Etymology: < informat- (in information n.) + -ic suffix (see -ic suffix 2), originally after Russian informatika (A. I. Mixailov et al. 1966, in Naučno-texničeskaja informacija 12 35). Compare German Informatik (K. Steinbuch 1957, in SEG-Nachrichten 5 171), French informatique (1962); it is likely that the Russian, German, and French nouns were coined independently of each other.The three foreign-language nouns were originally semantically distinct: German Informatik originally denoted the automated processing of information, French informatique the branch of study dealing with information processing in general (although especially by automated means), and Russian informatika the theory of scientific information. However, in later use they also came to be used to denote the academic subject which is called computer science in English (see computer science n.), and this is now their chief sense. The same semantic development is also seen in their parallels in most other European languages, except in English. The following earlier use as the name of a company is apparently unrelated:1962 Science 16 Nov. 801 Francis V. Wagner..has been appointed director of plans and programs for Informatics Inc., a recently formed computer organization in Culver City, Calif.
With singular or (rarely) plural agreement. The branch of study that deals with the structure, properties, and communication of information and with means of storing or processing information. Cf. bioinformatics n., information science n.
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information theory1948
information science1955
informatics1967
1967 FID News Bull. 17 73/2 Informatics is the discipline of science which investigates the structure and properties (not specific content) of scientific information, as well as the regularities of scientific information activity, its theory, history, methodology and organization.
1970 Times 2 Sept. 9 It was agreed..that an introduction to Informatics should form an integral part of general education.
1985 Internat. Rice Res. (Internat. Rice Res. Inst., Manila) ix. 186 Science and technology, particularly in fields such as microelectronics, computer science, genetic engineering,..and informatics, are making explosive progress.
1987 A. Amendola in A. Amendola & A. Z. Keller Reliability Data Bases 235 Before starting the design of the informatics structure of the data bank, it was necessary to define the format of the accident reporting collection forms.
1996 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 22/5 It has taken a long time but now it seems that informatics really are eliminating lots of white collar jobs.
1998 Science 2 Jan. 37/2 Genome informatics is a child of the information age.
2000 Australian (Nexis) 13 Sept. 34/6 Nurses are being offered courses in informatics to increase their influence in computerised records management.
2007 Wired May 136/1 The institute's massive mapping effort began in 2003, using laser microdissection and high-throughput informatics to extract data from thin shavings of rodential gray matter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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