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comms

comms is the plural of comm.

comms is the clipping of communications.

Meaning of comm

Noun

comm (plural comms)

  1. Synonym of commlink.
    • My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix
    Synonyms:
    commlink

Meaning of communications

Noun

communications pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Telecommunications, the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means.
    • David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23
  2. (plural, plural-only) Organizational or corporate communication.
    Synonyms:
    comms
  3. (plural, plural-only) Systems for communicating (e.g. postal and telephone networks)
    • cell phones and other communications equipment

Questions about comms

What is comms the plural of?
Comms is the plural of comm.

Words near comms in the dictionary

  1. commots
  2. commove
  3. commoved
  4. commoves
  5. commoving
  6. comms
  7. comms.
  8. commsat
  9. commsats
  10. communal
  11. communal bin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: comms (page history and authors); comm (page history and authors); communications (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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