telecommunication

See also: télécommunication

English

Etymology

From French télécommunication.

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.

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), 电讯 (zh) (diànxùn), 電信／电信 (zh) (diànxìn), 电信 (zh) (diànxìn)

• Czech: telekomunikace f
• Finnish: televiestintä
• French: télécommunication (fr)
• German: Telekommunikation (de) f
• Greek: τηλεπικοινωνίες (el) f pl (tilepikoinoníes)
• Italian: telecomunicazioni (it)
• Japanese: 電気通信 (でんきつうしん, denki tsūshin)
• Kazakh: телекоммуникация (telekommunikasiä)
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• Kyrgyz: телекоммуникация (ky) (telekommunikatsiya)
• Macedonian: телекомуникации pl (telekomunikacii)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telekommunikasjon m

  Nynorsk: telekommunikasjon m

• Portuguese: telecomunicação (pt) f
• Romanian: telecomunicații pl
• Russian: телекоммуника́ции (ru) f pl (telekommunikácii), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ), электросвя́зь (ru) f (elektrosvjázʹ)
• Spanish: telecomunicación f
• Thai: โทรคมนาคม (th) (tora gamanāgom)
• Ukrainian: телекомунікації (telekomunikaciji)
• Uzbek: telekommunikatsiya (uz)