communication
com·mu·ni·cation
noun
the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
- “they could not act without official communication from Moscow”
a connection allowing access between persons or places
- “how many lines of communication can there be among four people?”
- “a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms”
Origin
Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“to share, to impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.
Phrases
- communication accommodation theory
- communication board
- communication cord
- communication disorder
- communication engineering
- communication mix
- communication studies
- communications satellite
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