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COMMUNICATIONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)
Example:
communications is his major field of study
Synonyms:
communication theory; communications
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("communications" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
Domain member category:
entropy; information; selective information ((communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome)
Context examples:
Young children who live close to a major roadway are twice as likely to score lower on tests of communications skills, compared to those who live farther away from a major roadway.
(Kids living near major roads at higher risk of developmental delays, National Institutes of Health)
Mission operators were also faced with an imminent month-long period when the sun is close to the line-of-sight between Earth and Rosetta, meaning communications with the craft would have become increasingly more difficult.
(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)
He perfectly understood this allusion to the considerations that had hitherto restrained me in my communications with him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mobile communications system that uses a combination of radio wave transmission and conventional telephone switching to permit telephone communication to and from mobile users within a specified area.
(Mobile Telephone, NCI Thesaurus)
In our communications we deal only in the great.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Will find some sure means of communications.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A communications device designed for use between rooms of a building.
(Intercom Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Collaborations are established through communications and agreements with the participating groups.
(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)
Communications problems between devices within a wireless system.
(Device Wireless Communication Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
A comprehensive set of standards for communications between medical imaging devices, including handling, storing and transmitting information in medical imaging.
(DICOM, NCI Thesaurus)
