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Communications

noun

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

Communication

noun

The activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information. Synonym: communicating.

Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups.

A connection allowing access between persons or places. "A secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms"

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"Communications" Quotes from Famous Books

... If this vessel be tied in any part of its course, the collateral circulation will depend principally upon the free communications between it and the ulnar, through the medium of the superficial and deep palmar arches and those of the branches derived from both vessels, and from the two interossei distributed to the fingers and back ...

— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... physicians had expressed their opinion that the admiral might linger for many days, and the vicar thought that advantage might be derived from his being left for a short time to his own reflections, and to recover from the state of exhaustion arising from the communications of the preceding evening. When he arrived at the hall the windows were closed—Admiral De Courcy ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... sound was such as might have been made by a human hand, not as upon a door by one asking admittance, but rather, I thought, as an agreed signal, an assurance of someone's presence in an adjoining room; most of us, I fancy, have had more experience of such communications than we should care to relate. I glanced at Dampier. If possibly there was something of amusement in the look he did not observe it. He appeared to have forgotten my presence, and was staring at the wall behind me with ...

— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce

... arranged that President Roosevelt should formally open the Exposition by means of telegraphic communications from the White House to the fair grounds. A key of ivory and gold was used for the purpose, and as soon as it was touched a salute of twenty-one guns roared forth in the Exposition's honor. Around the President were assembled the members of his Cabinet and representatives of many foreign nations. ...

— American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer

... this view as a possible basis for a discussion of the grounds for popular criticism of the courts. To require the counsel to disclose the confidential communications of his client to the very court and jury which are to pass on the issue which he is making, would end forever the possibility of any useful relation between lawyer and client. It is essential for the proper presentation of the client's ...

— Ethics in Service • William Howard Taft

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