Monday, October 15, 2007

Definitions of communication

Definitions of communication

"Any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take linguistic or nonlinguistic forms, and may occur through spoken or other modes."

" A connection allowing access between persons or places; "how many lines of communication can there be among four people?"; "a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms"

"Communication allows people to exchange thoughts by one of several methods. There are auditory means, such as speaking or singing, and physical means, such as sign language, touch, or eye contact".

for information theory, "communication is a process in which the state at a transmitter, a source of information, is reproduced with some errors at a receiver. The errors are caused by noise in the communications channel".

"The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information through speech, signals, writing, or behavior".

"Communication is a movement of matter or energy between two parts of the universe. This matter or energy can be a carrier of information".

"The movement of data from one part of a system to another. Local communication is the movement of data between the processor and memory; global communication is the movement of data from one node to another".

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