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commlink

noun

Etymology

From comm + link.

  1. inherited from *kleng-✻
  2. inherited from *hlankaz✻ — “bendsome, flexible”
  3. inherited from *hlankiz✻
  4. derived from *hlenkr✻
  5. inherited from hlenċe
  6. inherited from linke
  7. compounded as commlink — “comm + link”

Definitions

  1. A communications device.

    • 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.
    • Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for commlink. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA