communication theory

1. 1.

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

   “communications is his major field of study”

   Synonymscommunications

   Broaderdiscipline

Questions about communication theory

What does communication theory mean?

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

What is another word for communication theory?

Close synonyms include communications. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is communication theory a common word?

communication theory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.