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communications

communications

1 2.8
Study of media and tools used to send information
  • noun
  • /kəˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃənz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : comunicaciones
  • The study of communications involves understanding how information is transmitted through various media.
  • communications center

I mean, we are in the midst of this communications revolution right now.

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Examples

  • And that certainly provided efficient communications for soldiers in the field.

  • I am a communications engineer and theorist.

  • This would be a very challenging communications project.

  • It's called Five Stars, the communications secrets to get from good to great.

  • Inside the triangle, you have product, legal systems, communications, and cash flow.

  • I mean, we are in the midst of this communications revolution right now.

  • And we did this phone as a way for people to reclaim their communications and data privacy.

  • She specializes, as I say, in communications, feminism and gender as well.

  • EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECTS LEADING UP TO BITCOIN HAS RELEASED THEIR COMMUNICATIONS WITH SATOSHI FROM THIS PERIOD.

  • NOW WOULD YOU KINDLY EXPLAIN TO ME WHY ALL COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIS ESTABLISHMENT HAVE BEEN CUT AND WHY THE ENTIRE PLACE APPEARS TO BE DESERTED?

Synonyms

media
vscommunications
  • Literature
2.1

Main ways of sending news and information to many people, like TV or newspapers

is the academic study of how such channels and methods transmit information
communication
vscommunications
798 2.1

The act of sharing information, ideas, or feelings with other people

is the academic study of those transmission methods and their guiding principles
communication theory
vscommunications
  • Specialized
1 5.7

Study of how people send and receive messages through media like newspapers, radio and television

is the same field but described in a more general, nontechnical way

Compounds

A United States government agency that regulates radio, television, and internet companies

5 4.0

The study and use of systems and machines that send information like phones and the internet

5 3.9

A man-made object in space high above Earth that sends and receives television, phone, or internet signals

1 4.1

A set of rules that tell devices how to send and receive information over a network

A Canadian government agency that gathers information from communications and helps protect Canada from spying and cyber attacks

6.0

Information from listening to and reading other people's messages without their knowledge, used by armies or governments to find threats

Tools and systems that send and receive information using computers or phones

A legal rule that stops a husband or wife from talking about private conversations during their marriage

Surface Forms

communication singular

Morphology

communications = communication (transparent) = communicate + ion + s

The plural form 'communications' is transparently derived from 'communication'.

Etymology

The word communications comes from the old Latin word communicare, which means 'to share', and it is the same root as common and community. So communications is about sharing information or messages with other people, for example by print, radio, or the internet.