communications

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”

   Synonymscommunication theory

   Broaderdiscipline

Other forms of communications

plural

communicationses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about communications

What does communications mean?

communications 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.)".

How many syllables are in communications?

communications has 5 syllables: com-mu-ni-ca-tions. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /kəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃənz/.

What is another word for communications?

Close synonyms include communication theory. 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 communications a common word?

communications is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.