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Message
  • Any thought or idea expressed briefly in a plain, coded, or secret language, prepared in a form suitable for transmission by any means of communication. (JCS1-NATO) Note: A message may be a one-unit message or a multiunit message.
  • [In telecommunications,] Record information expressed in plain or encrypted language and prepared in a format specified for intended transmission by a telecommunications system. (JCS1-DoD)
  • An arbitrary amount of information whose beginning and end are defined or implied. (FP) See also signal (def. #4), signal message.