telecommunications
[tel-i-kuh-myoo-ni-key-shuh nz]
- Sometimes telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.
- Sometimes telecommunication. (used with a singular verb) the science and technology of such communication.
- telecommunication, a message so transmitted.
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- of or relating to telecommunications.
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Origin of telecommunications
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Related Words for telecommunications
machinery, automation, mechanics, robotics, telecommunications, mechanization, publicity, means, media, travel, route, transportExamples from the Web for telecommunications
Contemporary Examples of telecommunications
Telecommunications workers and investors clearly will find it easy to travel to Cuba, at least from the American side.
Obama Realizes What 10 Presidents Didn’t: Isolating Cuba Doesn’t WorkChristopher Dickey
December 18, 2014
Just look at the recent battle between Netflix and telecommunications giant Comcast.
Porn Fights For Your Right to Surf: Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube Lead Charge For Net NeutralityAurora Snow
September 13, 2014
Why waste time on retail spying when you can hack an entire platform or telecommunications network?
Finally, telecommunications is a heavily regulated industry.
But I can also tell you that the telecommunications revolution has limits.
Historical Examples of telecommunications
With cheap, educated workforce – they can monopolize basic data processing and telecommunications functions worldwide.
After the RainSam Vaknin
Grinning secretively to himself, he walked into the telecommunications room.
The House from NowhereArthur G. Stangland
telecommunications
- (functioning as singular) the science and technology of communications by telephony, radio, television, etc
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telecommunication
[tĕl′ĭ-kə-myōō′nĭ-kā′shən]
- The science and technology of sending and receiving information such as sound, visual images, or computer data over long distances through the use of electrical, radio, or light signals, using electronic devices to encode the information as signals and to decode the signals as information.
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