intercommunicate
/ˌɪntəkəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt
/verb [no object]
1Engage in two-way communication: Dr Haber gazed at this while intercommunicating with his receptionist...
- But this thing they call ‘spiritualism,’ wherein a medium intercommunicates with the dead, is a fraud from start to finish.
- Roberta Brinton, at the University of Southern California, has succeeded in growing neurons in a cell culture on electronic chips that can intercommunicate.
- What could be more conventional than the taps on the wall by which prisoners in neighboring cells intercommunicate in code?
2 (often as adjective intercommunicating) (Of two rooms) have a common connecting door.The spacious sitting room has a marble fireplace, patio doors, bay window and intercommunicating doors to the dining room which has a tiled floor, two velux roof windows, patio doors and is open plan to the kitchen.
Derivatives
intercommunicative
Origin
Late 16th century: from Anglo-Latin intercommunicat- 'mutually communicated', from the verb intercommunicare.