Definitions for communications

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communications com·mu·ni·ca·tion

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

IPA: /kəˌmyu nɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Communications is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 29 points.

You can make 1106 anagrams from letters in communications (acciimmnnoostu).

Definitions for communications

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 communications

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

Examples for communications

In the meantime the communications of the Allies were in danger.

He might, indeed, have been safely trusted with the most compromising communications.

Army officials also allege that he worked for ethnic rebels as a “communications captain.”

Jack Lundie, Director of communications for the British charity Oxfam, defended the single to the Daily Beast.

I should judge from what I saw of the truth of his communications.

The NSA had already built the infrastructure to tap into communications networks.

There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications.

The floor was lifted between us, however, and we held our communications by these means.

What access to communications would they be given during quarantine?

He and his followers have become really good at keeping their communications covert.