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Correspondence vs Communications - What's the difference?

correspondence | communications |

As nouns the difference between correspondence and communications

is that correspondence is friendly discussion while communications is plural of lang=en.

correspondence

English

(wikipedia correspondence) (Webster 1913)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Friendly discussion.
  • (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
  • (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
  • (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally.
  • (countable) A postal or other written communication.
  • (uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
  • (set theory, countable) A relation.

    • See also

    * correspondent

    communications

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (pluralonly) Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14
    • , author=Simon Jenkins, authorlink=Simon Jenkins , title=We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys , volume=188, issue=2, page=23 , date=2012-12-21 , magazine= citation , passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}

    Derived terms

    * communications satellite ----