message
Definitions
General English
- noun information which is sent to someone
Commerce
- noun a piece of news which is sent to someone
- noun information given on a little screen on a computer, printer, fax machine, etc.
Computing
- noun a piece of information sent from one person to another
- noun a defined amount of information
Electronics
- A given amount of information which is transferred from one entity, such as a device, user, application, or system, to another. Also, the information contained in such a communication, which may be text, control characters, commands, images, audio, and so on. Also, to send such a message.
- A message (1) consisting of an email sent over a communications network such as the Internet.
- In programming, a message (1) utilized to request or call an action, operation, function, object, or the like.
- abbreviationmsg
Information & Library Science
- noun a piece of information that you send or leave for somebody
Marketing
- noun an idea that is communicated by promotion
Media Studies
- noun the informational content of a piece of communication
- noun a lesson, moral, or important idea communicated, e.g. in a work of art
Military
- noun a verbal or written instruction, request, question or statement, which is passed from one person to another
Origin & History of “message”
Etymologically, a message is something that is ‘sent’. The word comes via Old French message from vulgar Latin *missāticum, a derivative of the Latin verb mittere (from which English also gets admit, mission, transmit, etc). Messenger (13th c.) comes from the Old French derivative messager, and was originally messager in English; the n is a 14th-century intruder, found also in such words as harbinger and passenger.
