Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun communication_theory

1 sense of communication theory

Sense 1
communications, communication theory -- (the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study")
       => discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick -- (a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings")