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intercommunication|-kəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən|
Also 6–7 enter-.
[ad. Anglo-Lat. intercommūnicātio (1406 in Du Cange): see intercommunicate v. and communication.]
1. The action or fact of communicating with each other; intercourse.
1586T. Bright Treat. Melancholy xii. 56 These haue each of them, but one quality: fire hote, ayer moist..if they should haue twaine, then must they needes either entercommunicate, or two qualities concurre with the firste matter: entercommunication is there none: for then should they not be the elements of other things seeing they should be elements of ech other. 1829Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 149 When you and I had more leisure for an inter-communication, of which I have..made profitable use. 1846Grote Greece ii. iii. II. 362 Those causes which tended to bring about increased Hellenic intercommunication.
2. The mutual imparting of ideas or information; interchange of speech; mutual conference.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 251 Even in beasts, that have no voice at all,..we easily inferre there is some other meane of entercommunication. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 255 A brief question, and a monosyllable in reply, was their only intercommunication. 1871Darwin Desc. Man I. ii. 58 Ants have considerable powers of intercommunication by means of their antennæ.
3. Passage to and fro by connecting channels or lines of communication.
1866Owen Anat. Vertebr. I. vii. 510 The free intercommunication between the basal spaces into which the auricles open.
4. attrib. Cf. intercom.
1911M. Hird in L. Weaver House & its Equipment 124 With an ‘intercommunication’ system of telephones in the house, room after room can be..easily ‘rung up’. 1967Lebende Sprachen XII. 137/1 Intercommunication system (intercom), a system of wiring which enables two-way communication between teacher and student(s). |