Definition of comunication

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

But fathers often addressed communications to their small children ; and these , full of homely advice , are among the most human and revealing of Civil_War letters .

(The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli : an idea in his own head , the suggestions of a colleague , a question from the Secretary or the President , a proposal by another department , a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad , the filing of an item for the agenda of the United_Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies , a news_item read at the breakfast_table , a question to the President or the Secretary at a news_conference , a speech by a Senator or Congressman , an article in a periodical , a resolution from a national organization , a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad , et_cetera , ad_infinitum .

(Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)

A substantial increase is estimated in the cost of operating additional communications_systems in the air defense_program , as_well as in all programs where speed and security of communications are essential .

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

In my experience , a great many_of the patient 's more puzzling verbal communications are so for the reason that concrete meanings have not become differentiated from figurative meanings in his subjective experience .

One hebephrenic women confided to me , `` I live in a world of words '' , as if , to her , words were fully concrete objects ; Burnham , in his excellent article ( 1955 ) concerning schizophrenic communication , includes mention of similar clinical material .