Definitions for Telecommunications
ˌtɛl ɪ kəˌmyu nɪˈkeɪ ʃənztelecom·mu·ni·ca·tions

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1. telecommunicationsnoun

   the science and technology of communication at a distance, especially the electronic transmission of signals; telecommunication

2. telecommunicationsnoun

   the systems used in transmitting such signals

3. telecommunicationsnoun

   Plural form of telecommunication.

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1. Telecommunications

   Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that feasible with the human voice, but with a similar scale of expediency; thus, slow systems (such as postal mail) are excluded from the field. The transmission media in telecommunication have evolved through numerous stages of technology, from beacons and other visual signals (such as smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs), to electrical cable and electromagnetic radiation, including light. Such transmission paths are often divided into communication channels, which afford the advantages of multiplexing multiple concurrent communication sessions. Telecommunication is often used in its plural form. Other examples of pre-modern long-distance communication included audio messages, such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. 20th- and 21st-century technologies for long-distance communication usually involve electrical and electromagnetic technologies, such as telegraph, telephone, television and teleprinter, networks, radio, microwave transmission, optical fiber, and communications satellites. A revolution in wireless communication began in the first decade of the 20th century with the pioneering developments in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909, and other notable pioneering inventors and developers in the field of electrical and electronic telecommunications. These included Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse (inventors of the telegraph), Antonio Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell (some of the inventors and developers of the telephone, see Invention of the telephone), Edwin Armstrong and Lee de Forest (inventors of radio), as well as Vladimir K. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth (some of the inventors of television). The early telecommunication networks were created with copper wires as the physical medium for signal transmission. For many years, these networks were used for basic phone services, namely voice and telegrams. Since the mid-1990s, as the internet has grown in popularity, voice has been gradually supplanted by data. This soon demonstrated the limitations of copper in data transmission, prompting the development of optics.

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1. Telecommunications

   Telecommunication is communication at a distance by technological means, particularly through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves. Early telecommunication technologies included visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs. Other examples of pre-modern telecommunications include audio messages such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. Electrical and electromagnetic telecommunication technologies include telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, networks, radio, microwave transmission, fiber optics, communications satellites and the Internet. A revolution in wireless telecommunications began in the 1900s with pioneering developments in radio communications by Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his efforts. Other highly notable pioneering inventors and developers in the field of electrical and electronic telecommunications include Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, Edwin Armstrong, and Lee de Forest, as well as John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth. The world's effective capacity to exchange information through two-way telecommunication networks grew from 281 petabytes of information in 1986, to 471 petabytes in 1993, to 2.2 exabytes in 2000, and to 65 exabytes in 2007. This is the informational equivalent of two newspaper pages per person per day in 1986, and six entire newspapers per person per day by 2007. Given this growth, telecommunications play an increasingly important role in the world economy and the global telecommunications industry was about a $4.7 trillion sector in 2012. The service revenue of the global telecommunications industry was estimated to be $1.5 trillion in 2010, corresponding to 2.4% of the world’s gross domestic product.

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1. Telecommunications

   Transmission of information over distances via electronic means.

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1. telecommunications

   Any transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, or information of any nature by wire, radio, visual, or other electromagnetic systems.

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1. telecommunications

   The science and technology of communication or transmission of data and information and the structures and systems to create and implement this.

   The telecommunications networks were very efficient in how they used various types of systems to ensure people were communicating information faster than the speed of light.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 19, 2020  

How to pronounce Telecommunications?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Telecommunications in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Telecommunications in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Telecommunications in a Sentence

1. John Bolton:

   Everybody is catching up to the dangers posed, especially in 5th-generation telecommunications systems, by equipment from Huawei and potentially others that can allow foreign governments a back door into telecommunications systems.

2. Harold Feld:

   Right now, the FCC has designated [the Internet] as a telecommunications service —like a phone service which includes all of the rules that apply to prevent [a company] from blocking or throttling or favoring one company over another, the real question, to some degree, is: is the Internet going to work like the old telephone where you get to decide who you called and what you do or is it going to become more like cable?

3. Mike Pompeo:

   I think we've made progress and I know that we are going to continue to push, when you have telecommunications that are deeply connected to state-owned enterprises connected to China, we don't see there is a technical mitigation risk that is possible.

4. Tareq Amin:

   The advantage of cloud, if you look at Amazon, Google or Facebook, is that they have achieved a level of efficiency that telecommunications companies can only dream of, we are there today in terms of our efficiency.

5. French President Francois Hollande:

   I am thinking about renewable energy...and the shipping industry...and probably also in the defence industry there could be cooperation between French and Italian companies...This is also true for telecommunications if we want to have weight in this market.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Telecommunications
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Telecommunications
4. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf