comms
- noun
- /kəmz/
- Jargon
- Good comms are essential for the success of any project in the tech industry.
We come in trying to get air comms with Vipers.
- We come in trying to get air comms with Vipers.
- Everyone's dependent on energy and power, as well as comms and finance.
- Which one has the greatest global reach in comms?
- We need weapons, night vision goggles, lots of ammunition, satellite dish, secure comms, everything.
- I tell the reconnaissance team lead and like, dude, let's hop on comms.
- Number one, they take aim at Irena Briganti, the head of the Fox comms shop that we've been talking about on this show.
- We've had Mike Costello come in and talk about the chaos of ringside being, you know, on the comms.
- Well, fairness, Steve is all in on the comms, all in on the commodities.
- But the pace that at which she rolled it out, the comms could have been, could have been finessed.
- So it's bull because your friends aren't experts in comms.
Examples
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We need weapons, night vision goggles, lots of ammunition, satellite dish, secure comms, everything.
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Everyone's dependent on energy and power, as well as comms and finance.
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Shut down sensor to Comms Tower 3 and 4.
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Roger, Comms, we have visual.
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We come in trying to get air comms with Vipers.
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Meet me back at Comms in 1200 hours.
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COMMS OFFICER: 533rd Street and Tyler Avenue.
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For communication, the crew used a headset and paired comms throat microphone.
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Concerns over comms to auditors and governance, that's not good.
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The team relied on secure comms to coordinate their mission effectively.
Surface Forms
Morphology
comms = communication (transparent) = communication + s
An informal clipped abbreviation of 'communications' used in business and technical contexts; meaning is directly derivable from the base term.
Etymology
The word comms is a short, informal form of communications, which comes from a root meaning 'to share' and is like the word common. So comms are the messages or systems that help people share information.