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message

(1) An e-mail that contains text and possibly other file attachments. See e-mail.

(2) Any set of transmitted data. Just as a program becomes a job when it runs in the computer, data becomes a message when it is transmitted over a network.

(3) In object technology, communicating between objects, similar to a function call in traditional programming.

message
1. a formal communiqu?
2. an inspired communication of a prophet or religious leader
message [′mes·ij]
(communications)
A series of words or symbols, transmitted with the intention of conveying information.
(computer science)
An arbitrary amount of information with beginning and end defined or implied: usually, it originates in one place and is intended to be transmitted to another place.
message - In object-oriented programming sending a message to an object (to invoke a method) is equivalent to calling a procedure in traditional programming languages, except that the actual code executed may only be selected at run time depending on the class of the object. Thus, in response to the message "drawSelf", the method code invoked would be different if the target object were a circle or a square.


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"The impertinence of Lady Lundie's message is no more than I should have expected from her," she said.
Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Through all the winter Father Claude had been expecting to hear from Simon de Montfort but not until now did he receive a message which told the good priest that his letter had missed the great baron and had followed him around until he had but just received it.
The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Ever he struggled to combat the fever, to live, to continue to live, to grow strong and stronger against the day when he would be strong enough to dare the grass-lands and the belted jungle beyond, and win to the beach, and to some labour-recruiting, black-birding ketch or schooner, and on to civilization and the men of civilization, to whom he could give news of the message from other worlds that lay, darkly worshipped by beastmen, in the black heart of Guadalcanal's midmost centre.
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