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Trademark Definition–noun | 1. | any name, symbol, figure, letter, word, or mark adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant in order to designate his or her goods and to distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. A trademark is a proprietary term that is usually registered with the Patent and Trademark Office to assure its exclusive use by its owner. |
| 2. | a distinctive mark or feature particularly characteristic of or identified with a person or thing. |
–verb (used with object) | 3. | to stamp or otherwise place a trademark designation upon. |
| 4. | to register the trademark of. |
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Information Definition–noun | 1. | knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime. |
| 2. | knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing. |
| 3. | the act or fact of informing. |
| 4. | an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public: The ticket seller said to ask information for a timetable. |
| 6. | Law. | a. | an official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury. |
| b. | a criminal charge, made by a public official under oath before a magistrate, of an offense punishable summarily. |
| c. | the document containing the depositions of witnesses against one accused of a crime. |
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| 7. | (in information theory) an indication of the number of possible choices of messages, expressible as the value of some monotonic function of the number of choices, usually the logarithm to the base 2. |
| 8. | Computers. | a. | important or useful facts obtained as output from a computer by means of processing input data with a program: Using the input data, we have come up with some significant new information. |
| b. | data at any stage of processing (input, output, storage, transmission, etc.). |
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