informate

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See also: infórmate

English

Etymology

Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, from information, modelled on automate.

Verb

informate (third-person singular simple present informates, present participle informating, simple past and past participle informated)

  1. (uncommon) To use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information.
    • 1988, Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine, New York: Basic Books, page 390:
      The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices.
    • 2001, Richard Stivers, Peter Stirk, Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 186:
      Whether modern organizations turn in the direction of an automated or informated workplace, the use of information systems allows information to assume a normative cast.

Further reading

Esperanto

Adverb

informate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of informi

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

informate

  1. inflection of informare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

informate f pl

  1. feminine plural of informato

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

īnfōrmāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of īnfōrmātus

Spanish

Verb

informate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of informar combined with te