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communication (iou)



communication noun. LME.
[formed as COMMUNICATE verb: see -ATION.]
The action of communicating heat, feeling, motion, etc.; spec. the transmission or exchange of information, news, etc. LME.
J. B. Priestley The telegram was..the common method of communication.
b. In pl. The science and practice of transmitting information. M20.
Conference; a conversation. LME-E17.
Social contact, personal intercourse. LME.
Defoe They had little knowledge or communication one with another.
b. Sexual intercourse. Long arch. L18.
Shared possession, common participation; a similarity; a sharing. LME-L18.
Something communicated; (a piece of) information; a written paper of information, observations, comments, etc. L15.
Oxford English Dictionary I have read your communication to the Academy. M. Peake Very little communication passed between..these outer quarters and those who lived within the walls.
Access or means of access between persons or places; a means of communicating; a connecting door, passage, road, telephone line, etc.; in pl. spec. Military, the means of transport between a base and a front. L17.
J. Lubbock To protect our communications with India and Australia.
A meeting of a Masonic lodge. L19.
Phrases: in communication (with) (a) in conference with; (b) actively communicating (with), able to communicate actively (with). PRIVILEGED communication.
Comb.: communication cord a cord or chain for pulling by a passenger to stop a train in an emergency; communication satellite, communications satellite an artificial satellite for broadcast communications; communications theory, communication theory the branch of knowledge that deals with language and other means of conveying or exchanging information.
communicational adjective M20.
communicationally adverb L20.