telecommunication

See also: télécommunication

English

Etymology

From French télécommunication. Equivalent to tele- +‎ communication.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛləkəˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛlɪkəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌteləkəˌmjʉːnɪˈkæɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: tel‧e‧com‧mun‧i‧ca‧tion

Noun

telecommunication (countable and uncountable, plural telecommunications)

1. (uncountable) The science and technology of the communication of messages over a distance using electric, electronic or electromagnetic impulses. [1932]
2. (countable) A message so transmitted.
3. (in the plural) Systems used in transmitting such signals.
   • 2019 September 27, “Unicode in, Zawgyi out: Modernity finally catches up in Myanmar's digital world”, in The Japan Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 August 2020:

     Oct. 1 is “U-Day,” when Myanmar officially will adopt the new system. From then on, all electronic communication from government offices, telecommunications companies, banks and media must be in Unicode, by law.

Alternative forms

• (science): telecommunications

Synonyms

• telecom, telecoms

Derived terms

• telecommunications tower

Translations

science and technology of communication over distance

• Armenian: հեռահաղորդակցություն (hy) (heṙahaġordakcʻutʻyun)
• Catalan: telecomunicació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電訊 / 电讯 (zh) (diànxùn), 電信 / 电信 (zh) (diànxìn)

• Czech: telekomunikace f
• Danish: telekomminikation c
• Finnish: televiestintä (fi), telekommunikaatio (fi)
• French: télécommunication (fr)
• German: Telekommunikation (de) f
• Greek: τηλεπικοινωνίες (el) f pl (tilepikoinoníes)
• Hungarian: távközlés (hu), telekommunikáció (hu)
• Icelandic: fjarskipti n pl
• Indonesian: telekomunikasi (id)
• Italian: telecomunicazioni (it)
• Japanese: 電気通信 (ja) (でんきつうしん, denki tsūshin)
• Kazakh: телебайланыс (telebailanys), телеқатынас (teleqatynas)
• Kyrgyz: телекоммуникация (ky) (telekommunikatsiya)
• Macedonian: телекомуникации pl (telekomunikacii)
• Maori: whitimamao
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telekommunikasjon m

  Nynorsk: telekommunikasjon m

• Polish: telekomunikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: telecomunicação (pt) f
• Romanian: telecomunicație (ro) f
• Russian: телекоммуника́ции (ru) f pl (telekommunikácii), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ), электросвя́зь (ru) f (elektrosvjázʹ)
• Spanish: telecomunicación f
• Swahili: mawasiliano ya simu
• Tamil: தொலைத்தொடர்பு (ta) (tolaittoṭarpu)
• Thai: โทรคมนาคม (th) (tora gamanāgom)
• Turkish: telekomünikasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: телекомунікації (telekomunikaciji)
• Urdu: مُواصَلات m (muvāṣalāt)
• Uzbek: telekommunikatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: viễn thông (vi) (遠通)