intercom

Clipping of intercommunicator.

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intercom (plural intercoms)

1. An independent, telephonic communication system, set up around and throughout a building, complex, or residence, typically for access control.

   emergency intercom

   talk on the intercom

• video intercom
• intercom system

intercom (third-person singular simple present intercoms, present participle intercomming or intercoming, simple past and past participle intercommed or intercomed)

1. (ambitransitive) To communicate (with) by intercom.

• door entry system
• entryphone

• INCO term, INCOTERM, Incoterm, incoterm, micronet

Borrowed from English intercom.

intercom n (uncountable)

1. intercom

   Synonym: interfon

Unadapted borrowing from English intercom.

• IPA^(key): /inteɾˈkom/ [ĩn̪.t̪eɾˈkõm]
  • Rhymes: -om
• IPA^(key): /ˈinteɾkom/ [ˈĩn̪.t̪eɾ.kõm]
  • Rhymes: -inteɾkom
• Syllabification: in‧ter‧com

intercom m (plural intercoms)

1. (Latin America) intercom

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “intercom”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010