Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran

, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

(countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

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)