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intercommunication en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪntəkəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English communication English intercommunication From inter- + communication.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Mutual communication.
   • Starting in their different musical worlds, they attempted endless ways of achieving a partnership, at last finding some kind of "intercommunication". 2003 January 13, Tom Service, The Guardian:
   • 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. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

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