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  1. instant messagingnoun

    A form of realtime communication where two or more people exchange text messages, usually short, using computers or other devices with communications capabilities.

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  1. Instant messaging

    Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. Short messages are typically transmitted between two parties, when each user chooses to complete a thought and select "send". Some IM applications can use push technology to provide real-time text, which transmits messages character by character, as they are composed. More advanced instant messaging can add file transfer, clickable hyperlinks, Voice over IP, or video chat. Non-IM types of chat include multicast transmission, usually referred to as "chat rooms", where participants might be anonymous or might be previously known to each other (for example collaborators on a project that is using chat to facilitate communication). Instant messaging systems tend to facilitate connections between specified known users (often using a contact list also known as a "buddy list" or "friend list"). Depending on the IM protocol, the technical architecture can be peer-to-peer (direct point-to-point transmission) or client-server (an Instant message service center retransmits messages from the sender to the communication device). By 2010, instant messaging over the Web was in sharp decline, in favor of messaging features on social networks. The most popular IM platforms were terminated, such as AIM which closed down and Windows Live Messenger which merged into Skype. Instant messaging has since seen a revival in popularity in the form of "messaging apps" (usually on mobile devices) which by 2014 had more users than social networks.

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  1. Instant messaging

    Instant messaging is a type of online chat which offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. Short messages are typically transmitted bi-directionally between two parties, when each user chooses to complete a thought and select "send". Some IM clients can use push technology to provide real-time text, which transmits messages character by character, as they are composed. More advanced instant messaging can add file transfer, clickable hyperlinks, Voice over IP, or video chat. Non-IM types of chat include multicast transmission, usually referred to as "chat rooms", where participants might be anonymous or might be previously known to each other. Instant messaging systems tend to facilitate connections between specified known users. Depending on the IM protocol, the technical architecture can be peer-to-peer or client-server.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of instant messaging in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of instant messaging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of instant messaging in a Sentence

  1. Angelo Rossini:

    Instant messaging is becoming a threat to telecoms companies -- and also for social media, we definitely expect this to become the case in more and more other regions of the world.

  2. Clifford Villanueva Villalon:

    Tweeting is any person's interest of instant messaging in a snappy chat that sounds like a tik tok.


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