- telecommunication, telecom - (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically
--1 is a kind of medium
--1 has particulars:telephone, telephony; telegraphy; wireless; broadcasting; multiplex Derived form: verb telecommunicate1 - telecommunication - (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
--2 is a kind of electrical engineering, EE