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)

  1. Mutual communication.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By 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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