comm
3
7.4
- noun
- /kəm/
- Jargon
- Once we're en route, I want you to transmit a targeted comm burst to Harrison's location.
- comm system
Examples
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Please send me a quick comm to confirm your arrival time.
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Dr. Brand, CASE is relaying a message for you from the comm station.
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Uh, we lost our comm link to it in the crash.
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Repeat, this may be our last comm.
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I'll be on comms the whole time.
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We got hit by lightning and our main power and comms are down.
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Comm bursts came in regularly from friends and family.
Fiction book (1999) -
She doesn't answer on the comm either.
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Stay on your comms.
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RICKS: Lander One, we have ratty comm.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A message sent over the internet to another person
∞
1.0
Messages sent or received over the internet
149
2.3
A message sent from one person or group to another
29
8.0
A short message sent by computer or phone
29
1.0
A short voice recording someone leaves on a phone when the person cannot answer
12
1.0
A message that someone sends by computer to another person over the internet
9
2.9
Sending messages and information using computers or the Internet
4
1.1
A spoken message left on a phone when the person cannot answer
4
3.7
A private message sent to a person on social media or a messaging app
How Formal
- Formal
249
3.7
- Literature
125
2.5
351
1.8
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
- Jargon
3
7.4
- Texting
463
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Comm is a short form of communication, from Latin communicare meaning 'to share'. So a comm as a message is something shared quickly, like a short radio or electronic update.