"commlink" meaning in English

See commlink in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: commlinks [plural]
Etymology: comm + link Etymology templates: {{compound|en|comm|link}} comm + link Head templates: {{en-noun}} commlink (plural commlinks)

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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "comm + link",
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    {
      "form": "commlinks",
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        "plural"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
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            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age",
          "text": "A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Gary Caplan, The Phoenix Rising",
          "text": "Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A communications device."
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          "science fiction",
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        [
          "communications",
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        ],
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          "device"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(science fiction) A communications device."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "communicator"
        },
        {
          "word": "comm link"
        },
        {
          "word": "comlink"
        }
      ],
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        "publishing",
        "science-fiction"
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    },
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