intercommunication
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- entercommunication (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From inter- + communication.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]intercommunication (countable and uncountable, plural intercommunications)
- Mutual communication.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Even in beasts, that have no voice at all, by the reciprocall kindnesse, which we see in them, we easily inferre there is some other meane of entercommunication: their jestures treat, and their motions discourse.
- 2003 January 13, Tom Service, The Guardian:
- Starting in their different musical worlds, they attempted endless ways of achieving a partnership, at last finding some kind of "intercommunication".
French
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Noun
[edit]intercommunication f (plural intercommunications)
Further reading
[edit]- “intercommunication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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