COMINT
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- noun
- /ˈkɒmɪnt/
- Jargon
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COMINT
- Analysts evaluated the COMINT collected from intercepted messages to assess potential threats.
Examples
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Effective COMINT operations often require advanced technology to monitor and decrypt signals.
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How about a COMINT classification?
Fiction book (1995) -
COMINT priority frequency.
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The military relies on COMINT to gather crucial information about enemy communications.
Synonyms
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Secret information collected about a country or group for security
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Secret facts about an enemy or danger that governments use
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Information you get by intercepting and studying electronic communications like phone calls and radio transmissions
Information from listening to and reading other people's messages without their knowledge, used by armies or governments to find threats
Surface Forms
Morphology
COMINT = communications + intelligence (opaque) = C + O + M + I + N + T
The form is an acronym formed from initial letters of the phrase 'communications intelligence', a process that does not allow learners to derive meaning from the letters alone.
Etymology
COMINT comes from joining COM, short for 'communications', and INT, short for 'intelligence', meaning 'information'. So, COMINT means 'information' taken from other people's messages or signals, often used in military or security work.