COMMUNICATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communications mean? 

• COMMUNICATIONS (noun)
  The noun COMMUNICATIONS has 1 sense:

1. the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)

  Familiarity information: COMMUNICATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICATIONS (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.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

communication theory; communications

Context example:

communications is his major field of study

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 

If you work in the communications field, this November 12 full moon may find you either getting a new assignment or finishing one and shipping it off.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A reversing field might significantly affect navigation and satellite and other communications.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

A device designed to increase the weight per unit volume of a substance, or in communications, a device that combines data streams in a way that they can be separated after transmission.

(Concentrator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a little over one tenth the distance to the Moon and just above the orbital altitude of communications satellites.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

Communications problems between devices within a wired system.

(Device Wired Communication Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Most of the charged particles are deflected, but some make their way into near-Earth space and can impact our satellites by damaging onboard electronics and disrupting communications or navigation signals.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The asteroid will pass below Earth and the geosynchronous ring of communications and weather satellites orbiting about 36,000 kilometers above our planet's surface.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

The electrons in the ionosphere normally reflect radio waves back to ground level, enabling long-distance radio communications.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Graphene promises a significant step forward in performance for the key components of telecommunications and data communications.

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)