intercommunication
English
Alternative forms
- entercommunication (obsolete)
Etymology
inter- + communication
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəkəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
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 946730821:
- 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, Tom Service, The Guardian, 13 Jan.:
- Starting in their different musical worlds, they attempted endless ways of achieving a partnership, at last finding some kind of "intercommunication".
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French
Noun
intercommunication f (plural intercommunications)
- intercommunication
Further reading
- “intercommunication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.