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名詞

comm (plural comms)

1. Clipping of communication.

   comms line

   • 2016 January 15, Bryan Enk, “Belter Creole 101”, in SYFY‎:

     Hand gestures are also essential to Belter communication, as they evolved from the days of wearing space suits with poor comms during the early settler days.

   • 2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 41:

     I didn’t appreciate it yet, but the bike I’d bought was a little too big for me and I wasn’t sitting in the optimal position. One day, a few weeks in, I posted a sitrep: ‘Frustrating day with delays, crazy truck drivers, no room at the inn, comms playing up — but covered over 110km!’

2. Clipping of commission.
3. Clipping of committee.
4. Clipping of commandant.
5. (science fiction) Synonym of commlink.
   • 2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:

     My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.

派生語

動詞

comm (third-person singular simple present comms, present participle comming, simple past and past participle commed)

1. Abbreviation of commission.

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