communicator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From communicate + -or.
Noun
[edit]communicator (plural communicators)
- Someone who, or something that communicates.
- We'll let Nick give the presentation next week: he's a good communicator.
- Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays or artificial speech.
- (science fiction) A usually portable communications device.
- 1934 August, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6:
- ‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’
- 1968 January 12, David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon, A Piece of the Action (Star Trek), season 2, episode 17, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
- Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright an imitative people, should take that communicator apart...
Synonyms
[edit]- (science fiction device): commlink
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who communicates
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Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]commūnicātor
References
[edit]- “communicator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- communicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.