communication device

collocation in English

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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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device
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈvaɪs/us
/dɪˈvaɪs/
an object or machine that has been invented for a ...
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(Definition ofcommunicationanddevicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Figure 7 shows thecommunicationdeviceand the key adjustment points.
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But, in fact, they just serve as acommunicationdevicethat helps the participating countries to find a laissez-faire equilibrium.
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The latter may be information derived from an augmentativecommunicationdevice, an adapted keyboard, or specialised switches.
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Such findings favor the explanation that the appropriate use of prosodic features known to be characteristic of typical infant-directed speech as acommunicationdeviceis acquired pragmatically by each individual.
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Worse, it follows that intentionalism cannot be wholly reconciled with the widely held and plausible view that, in general, promulgation is rational as the legislature'scommunicationdevicefor statutes.
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The commander's psychiccommunicationdeviceis recovered and reverse engineered.
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The sporting use of the term "telegraph" draws a direct comparison with thecommunicationdeviceof the same name.
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One of the most common and versatile electronic products is the mobilecommunicationdevice.
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Adults may also use scanning with a partner when they are not using their more high-tech alternativecommunicationdevice.
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The operator console serves as the primarycommunicationdeviceand can be either a direct play terminal or a printing terminal.
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The package contains: a letter, an alien's fertilized egg, and acommunicationdevice.
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She wears a necklace of apparent religious significance, but actually acommunicationdevice.
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A common example for when partial reconfiguration would be useful is the case of acommunicationdevice.
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It may include the initialization of acommunicationdevice.
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The paper's use of the word telegraph predated the invention of thecommunicationdeviceby over a decade.
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Unified communications allows for an individual to check and retrieve an e-mail or voice mail from anycommunicationdeviceat any time.
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Personal (audio) wireless telephones were ubiquitous in 2001, and yet no one in the movie had a small personalcommunicationdevice.
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The method of access to acommunicationdevicedepends on the type and severity of the disease.
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The album starts in the future, when a boat with an electroniccommunicationdevicesails to the sea.
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These two are sometimes combined to form a two-waycommunicationdeviceknown as a transceiver.
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