WordNet
data communication
n. electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers) [syn: digital communication]
Usage examples of "data communication".
The ensuing financial chaos - with bank transfer networks, stock markets, bond markets, trading systems, credit networks, data communication lines all badly disrupted or destroyed - could, according to analysts, have caused a sufficiently powerful shock to the interdependent global financial systems to trigger a worldwide recession.