A message is a discrete unit of communication intended by the source for consumption by some recipient or group of recipients. A message may be delivered...

Look up The Message in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Message may refer to: The Message (1918 film), starring A. V. Bramble The Message (1976 film)...

The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier...

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses...

Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of synchronous computer-mediated communication involving the immediate (real-time) transmission of messages between...

Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between...

Message-ID is a unique identifier for a digital message, most commonly a globally unique identifier used in email and Usenet newsgroups. Message-IDs are...

"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter in his Understanding...

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices. It was conceived in the late–20th century as...

science, message passing is a technique for invoking behavior (i.e., running a program) on a computer. The invoking program sends a message to a process...

In information security, message authentication or data origin authentication is a property that a message has not been modified while in transit (data...

In computer networking, a private message, personal message, or direct message (abbreviated as PM or DM) refers to a private communication, often text-based...

In cryptography, a message authentication code (MAC), sometimes known as an authentication tag, is a short piece of information used for authenticating...

An error message is the information displayed when an unforeseen problem occurs, usually on a computer or other device. Modern operating systems with...

interpreted before it can be known. Hidden messages include backwards audio messages, hidden visual messages and symbolic or cryptic codes such as a crossword...

The Amman Message (Arabic: رسالة عمان, romanized: Risālat ʿAmmān) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on...

Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat...

A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. Something epistolary means that it is a form...

a message of the day or welcome message when a user first connects to them, logs in to them, or starts them. It is a way of sending a common message to...

In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components typically used for inter-process communication (IPC), or for inter-thread...

A status message is a function of some instant messaging applications whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users if they...

In interpersonal communication, an I-message or I-statement is an assertion about the feelings, beliefs, values, etc. of the person speaking, generally...

may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia message. The MMS standard extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability...

translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver. Message brokers are elements in telecommunication...

End of message or EOM (as in "(EOM)" or "<EOM>") signifies the end of a message, often an e-mail message. The subject of an e-mail message may contain...

In software architecture, a messaging pattern is an architectural pattern which describes how two different parts of an application, or different systems...

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (MSG) is a paraphrase of the Bible in contemporary English. Authored by Eugene H. Peterson and published...

A variable- (also changeable-, electronic-, or dynamic-) message sign or message board, often abbreviated VMS, VMB, CMS, or DMS, and in the UK known as...

Message precedence is an indicator attached to a message indicating its level of urgency, and used in the exchange of radiograms in radiotelegraph and...

In telecommunications, message switching involves messages routed in their entirety, one hop at a time. It evolved from circuit switching and was the...