DATA COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does data communication mean? 

• DATA COMMUNICATION (noun)
  The noun DATA COMMUNICATION has 1 sense:

1. electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers)

  Familiarity information: DATA COMMUNICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATA COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

data communication; digital communication

Hypernyms ("data communication" is a kind of...):

electronic communication (communication by computer)

Domain category:

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "data communication"):

asynchronous transfer mode; ATM (a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data)

 Context examples 

An individual user device on a data communication network.

(Network Endpoint, NCI Thesaurus)

The Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with design and programming of relational databases for clinical, population and other large-scale studies, development and supervision of a sophisticated data communication and reporting systems, software development for analyzing and interpreting data generated from clinical trials, population studies, microarray and proteomics technologies and other types of translational research.

(Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)