(from the article `automation`) One of the earliest practical applications of automation was in telephone switching. The first switching machines, invented near the end of the 19th ... Communications systems are of growing significance and complexity in commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings. Thus communications wires ... ...
[n] - a system for communicating 2. [n] - facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information
communication equipment noun facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information