[communication + set] a two-way communications device, especially one small enough to be easily carried, worn, or integrated into the helmet of a spacesuit. Compare comlink, suit-radio.
- 1966 C. Anvil Strangers to Paradise Analog SF — Sci. Fact (Oct.) 36/1: Some of the components the technicians left look to me like they'll work the 3-V on the comset here.
- 1987 S.H. Elgin Judas Rose (2002) 14: Bellena shrugged, trim and handsome and larger than life on the comset screen of the desk.
- 1992 G.D. Nordley Poles Apart G. Dozois Good New Stuff (1999) № 234: Mary left her comset on her belt, where it could see and record everything.
- 1995 K. MacLeod Star Fraction (2001) 15: The gun was picking up electronic spillover from the bomb's circuitry [...] and bouncing it via the security guard's commset to British Telecom's on-line bomb-disposal expert system.
- 2004 S.J. Van Scyoc Virgin Wings Mag. of Fantasy & SF (Dec.) 50: An elderly man wearing a comm-set and a scarlet sash approached.
