{
  "id": "communications.social",
  "term": "communications",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "social interaction",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a message is sent to people and is received by people",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "message.information",
      "send.communication",
      "receive.communication",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "sending a message to people and receiving it together forms communication",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual understanding",
      "information exchange",
      "shared meaning"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1986 Chernobyl disaster alert was transmitted via Soviet state radio after a 48-hour delay, reaching millions in Ukraine and beyond.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe's 1977 launch included a golden record with sounds and images intended for extraterrestrial reception.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, WhatsApp delivered 100 billion daily messages, each routed from sender to recipient through encrypted channels.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "communications enables the flow of information"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "communications enables knowledge exchange"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "communication",
    "communications"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-communications.social"
}