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ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Communication by computer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("electronic communication" is a kind of...):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic communication"):
data communication; digital communication (electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers))
e-mail; electronic mail; email ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in)
electronic messaging; messaging (the sending and processing of e-mail by computer)
command prompt; prompt ((computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command)
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