COMMUNICATION THEORY


Meaning of COMMUNICATION THEORY in English

or information theory

Field of mathematics that studies the problems of signal transmission, reception, and processing.

It stems from probability theory and stochastic processes and led to techniques for determining a source's rate of information production, a channel's capacity to handle information, and the average amount of information in a given type of message. Crucial to the design of communications systems, these techniques have important applications in {{link=linguistics">linguistics , psychology , and even literary theory.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.