Definition of informatics in English:
informatics
plural noun ˌɪnfəˈmatɪksˌɪnfərˈmædɪks
Computing treated as singular The science of processing data for storage and retrieval; information science.
Example sentencesExamples
- His current research interests extend to bioinformatics, health informatics and smart Internet technologies.
- In the context of biological informatics, metadata is an interoperability issue.
- The biggest obstacle to the advance of medical informatics isn't the technology, it's the entrenched institutional resistance.
- His areas of expertise include medical informatics, software engineering, and human factors.
- Neural networks are popular in computer science, business informatics, as well as statistics and neurology.
Origin
1960s: from information + -ics, translating Russian informatika.
Definition of informatics in US English:
informatics
plural nounˌɪnfərˈmædɪksˌinfərˈmadiks
Computing treated as singular The science of processing data for storage and retrieval; information science.
Example sentencesExamples
- Neural networks are popular in computer science, business informatics, as well as statistics and neurology.
- The biggest obstacle to the advance of medical informatics isn't the technology, it's the entrenched institutional resistance.
- His areas of expertise include medical informatics, software engineering, and human factors.
- His current research interests extend to bioinformatics, health informatics and smart Internet technologies.
- In the context of biological informatics, metadata is an interoperability issue.
Origin
1960s: from information + -ics, translating Russian informatika.