communicating

Etymology

From communicate + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of communicate

adj

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