communication system

collocation in English

meaningsofcommunicationandsystem

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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/
us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition ofcommunicationandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Part of the ' confusion ' derived from thecommunicationsystem, which was exasperatingly slow.
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How do members of different language communities compose sentences with a picture-basedcommunicationsystem?
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I try to get to a point where robots construct a sharedcommunicationsystemabout the real world perceived through their sensors.
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All data is exchanged transparently via the providedcommunicationsystem.
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The vocalization system evolved into the originally manual- and facial-basedcommunicationsystem.
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Some people, then, were directly involved in a nation-widecommunicationsystemwhereas others received information from people of their pueblo.
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Thecommunicationsystemdeveloped for the hand controller was also implanted in the remote robotic hand.
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Collectively, the repertoire of chemical compounds used within a species or among competing species forms a simple chemicalcommunicationsystem, or chemical language.
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Human language is a weirdcommunicationsystem: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates.
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There is empirical evidence for a dynamiccommunicationsystem, but it appears to be coexisting with an information processing system.
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The prerequisites of simulating language evolution are language-users, that is, communicative individuals with an establishedcommunicationsystem.
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Speed of communication through acommunicationsystemcan be very low, however, particularly when the physical disability is severe.
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A failure of thecommunicationsystemwhich becomes out of order.
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The message passing between the agents is depicted and the relationship to the underlyingcommunicationsystemis shown.
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In our hypothesis, each system of signals makes up a "mode-specificcommunicationsystem", that is, a set of rules to link signals to meanings.
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She also used another message basedcommunicationsystemin the evaluation period.
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These are supported by a knowledge database, and acommunicationsystemthat interconnects the functional elements and the knowledge database.
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The globalcommunicationsystemis taken into account as equipment.
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In such environments, a robot had to have acommunicationsystemwith the objects.
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Incremental cost of a department-wide implementation of a picture archiving andcommunicationsystemand computed radiography.
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