Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pc communication

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: pc -com-mu-ni-ca-tion
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Financial cyber trading in Korea has been increasing steadily in the areas of stock trading and banking via telephone networks, modem-based PC communication and the Internet."
"Images and information acquired from the Internet are distributed throughout Korean PC communication systems."
"In Korea, even before the high-speed world wide web became common, there were a lot of virtual communities online because of telnet-based PC communication technology."
"It wasn’t actually the ’90s but the early 2000s, for me. At that time, we weren’t connected via the web yet, but instead via a sort of Bulletin Board System that was called “PC communication” here."

Etymology

Calque of Korean PC통신 (PCtongsin).

Usage

Inflected Forms

PC communications (plural)

Questions

What does pc communication mean?: Nationwide computer networks that preceded the World Wide Web/Internet, with telnet-based dial-up connections and bulletin board messaging systems.
Where does pc communication come from?: Calque of Korean PC통신 (PCtongsin).

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