Definitions for communication

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communication com·mu·ni·ca·tion

Spelling: [kuh-myoo-ni-key-shuh n]

IPA: /kəˌmyu nɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Communication is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 540 anagrams from letters in communication (acciimmnnootu).

Definitions for communication

noun

1. the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
2. the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
3. something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.
4. a document or message imparting news, views, information, etc.
5. passage, or an opportunity or means of passage, between places.
6. communications. means of sending messages, orders, etc., including telephone, telegraph, radio, and television. routes and transportation for moving troops and supplies from a base to an area of operations.
7. Biology. activity by one organism that changes or has the potential to change the behavior of other organisms. transfer of information from one cell or molecule to another, as by chemical or electrical signals.

Origin of communication

1375-1425; Middle English communicacioun Middle French Latin commūnicātiōn- (stem of commūnicātiō), equivalent to commūnicāt(us) (see communicate) + -iōn-

Examples for communication

Advances in communication and social media have changed the way we interact with each other in a number of different ways.

Coltrane had another power, a power of self-regeneration that also has to do with that power of communication.

Still, the lack of communication with the tribes does not bode well for the future relationships.

Ambrose was the only person who ever received any communication from Giles Headley.

Polar ice would have been thawed by this reopening of communication.

It would seek to cut off the main Allied lines of supply and communication.

He did apply, and at the end of a month, no answer had been returned to his communication.

Was his father still alive, or was this letter a communication from the dead?

And yet I know that you will not love my brother the better for my communication.

Internet availability was “intermittent” and other forms of communication scarce.