Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Speech between two or more persons; conversation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Interchange of speech; alternation in speaking; dialogue.
- noun Intermediate discussion or argument; in law, an intermediate act or decree before final decision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.
- noun (Law) An intermediate act or decree before final decision.
- noun Hence, intermediate argument or discussion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Discussion orconversation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And if the interlocution is dependent on some or all of that baggage then it's in the baggage that we should be looking for tests -- or, more to the point, for clearer definitions of what it is we're testing for.
AI - Mark 4 Hal Duncan 2006
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And if the interlocution is dependent on some or all of that baggage then it's in the baggage that we should be looking for tests -- or, more to the point, for clearer definitions of what it is we're testing for.
Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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For him, patterns, context, and interlocution become organizing principles, so that the immune self, assuming a Jernian perspective, is eclipsed by another catch-all metaphor, cognition.
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It's just that if we can get interlocution without some or all of that baggage, it would be a feat in its own right, but to call it Artificial Intelligence would be a misnomer, I think.
Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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It's just that if we can get interlocution without some or all of that baggage, it would be a feat in its own right, but to call it Artificial Intelligence would be a misnomer, I think.
AI - Mark 4 Hal Duncan 2006
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A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness: and a good reply or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness.
The Essays 2007
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With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution.
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It shows this interlocution of elements and the beauty of kind of engineering and biological thinking, shown pretty much as a bone structure.
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It shows this interlocution of elements and the beauty of kind of engineering and biological thinking, shown pretty much as a bone structure.
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Experienced in the ways of political intrigue, if not interspecies interlocution, Treappyn had settled himself into a comfortable squat near the edge of the platform.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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