ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic communication mean? 

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

1. communication by computer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communication by computer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

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

data communication; digital communication (electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers))

e-mail; electronic mail; email ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in)

electronic messaging; messaging (the sending and processing of e-mail by computer)

command prompt; prompt ((computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command)

 Context examples 

E-mail is short for "electronic mail" and refers to composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems.

(E-mail, NCI Thesaurus)

While originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, with the advent of radio and television the use of the term has broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.

(Journalism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)