Communications

Noun

plural

1. Plural of communication
2. (pluralonly) Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
• 2012-12-21, Simon Jenkins, We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys, David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.

Derived terms

• communications satellite