Early means of communication over a distance included visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs.
en.wikipedia.org It states that language is strictly a means of communication, an act of social participation, and language variation as an obstacle to emancipation.
en.wikipedia.org When his linguistic fireworks fail at the end of the story, the proverb and human rhetoric in general are questioned as reliable means of communication.
en.wikipedia.org The means of communication are the builders of a society... they are made to build, to interchange, to fraternise, to make us think, to educate.
www.thetablet.co.uk Means of communication and transport in the social structure correspond to the distributary system in an organism.
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