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communications Synonyms

communications

n.

Means and systems of promoting communication include: post office, telegraph, telex, cable, wireless, mass media, television, communications satellite, COMSAT, Telstar, computer, radar, airmail, telephone, modem, beeper, pager, wireless telephone, cellular telephone, wireless telegraph, Internet, dictaphone, address system, PBX, loud-speaker, teletype, two-way radio; intercom*, ship-to-shore*, shore-to-ship*, walkie-talkie*;

communications Quotes

We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the functioning of an advanced industrial society is basedöa communications system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed information than any that man has deliberately designed.

—Hayek, Friedrich August von

Communications today puts a special emphasis on what happens next, for an able, sophisticated and competitive press knows that what happens today is no longer newsöit is what isgoing to happen tomorrow that is the object of interest and concern.

—Rusk, (David) Dean

The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.

—Aubrey,John

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

—Bible (NewTestament)