Noun

(en noun)

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter

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Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

A romantic or sexual involvement.

A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship .}}

(music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Noun

(wikipedia communication) (en noun)

The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.

communication of smallpox

communication of a secret

(uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.

Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.

The node had established communication with the network, but had as yet sent no data.

A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.

Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications .

The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.

The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.

An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.

The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.

* Shakespeare

Argument and friendly communication .

A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.

A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.

* Arbuthnot

The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.

(anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.

* 1855, William Stokes, The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta Page 617

...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.

(obsolete) association; company

* Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 33

Evil communications corrupt manners.

Participation in the Lord's supper.

(Bishop Pearson)

(rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

(Beattie)