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Handshaking

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A greeting by clasping hands.

    "A round of handshakings followed the introductions."

  2. 2
    grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) wordnet
  3. 3
    A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for communications.

    "I waited for the modems to finish their handshaking so I could start transferring the file."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of handshake form-of, gerund, participle, present

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