Communications
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The term communications is used in a number of disciplines:
- communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication.
- In geography, communications are the physical routes (roads, rivers, canals, railways, etc.) travelled by people in order to interact with each other. See also transportation.
- In telecommunication, the term communications has the following meanings:
- Information transfer, among users or processes, according to agreed conventions (see communications protocol).
- The branch of technology concerned with the representation, transfer, interpretation, and processing of data among persons, places, and machines also known as information systems.
- Note: The meaning assigned to the data must be preserved during these operations.
- Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
See also
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