handshake
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Handshake 1.
English
Etymology
hand + shake. See the appendix for the history of the gesture itself.
Pronunciation
Noun
handshake (plural handshakes)
- The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.
- 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 88:
- Eccles' handshake, eager and practiced and hard, seems to symbolize for him an embrace. For an instant Rabbit fears he will never let go.
- (computing) An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.
Derived terms
Translations
grasping of hands by two people
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an exchange of signals between two devices
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Verb
handshake (third-person singular simple present handshakes, present participle handshaking, simple past and past participle handshaked or handshook)
- (intransitive) To perform a handshake; to shake hands.
- (computing, intransitive) To perform a handshake with another device.