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Etymology edit

From communicate +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

communicating

  1. present participle and gerund of communicate

Adjective edit

communicating (not comparable)

  1. Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.
    Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:
      I put my grips against the communicating door last night.
    • 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express—the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
      Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.

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