informatics

See also: informàtics

English

Etymology

Coined 1957 or shortly thereafter from information +‎ -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.

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

Hyponyms of informatics

bioinformatics
community informatics
ecoinformatics

health informatics
hydroinformatics
legal informatics

neuroinformatics
nursing informatics

social informatics
veterinary informatics

Derived terms

informaticist

Related terms

informatic

Translations

branch of information science

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 信息學 (zh), 信息学 (zh) (xìnxīxué), (Taiwan) 資訊學, 资讯学 (zīxùnxué)
Czech: informatika (cs) f
Finnish: informatiikka
French: science de l'information f
German: Informatik (de) f
Greek: πληροφορική (el) f (pliroforikí)
Hungarian: informatika (hu)
Irish: faisnéisíocht f
Italian: informatica (it) f
Japanese: 情報学 (ja) (じょうほうがく, jōhōgaku)

Khmer: ពត៌មានវិទ្យា (poar rak mean vit tyea)
Mongolian: мэдээлэл зүй (medeelel züj)
Persian: انفورماتیک‎‎ (fa) (anformâtik)
Polish: informatyka (pl) f
Portuguese: informática (pt) f
Romanian: informatică (ro) f
Russian: информа́тика (ru) f (informátika)
Spanish: informática (es) f
Swedish: informatik (sv) c
Turkish: bilişim (tr)
Ukrainian: інформа́тика (uk) f (informátyka)

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