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intership

intership adjective: between ships.

Adjective

intership (not comparable)

  1. Between ships.
    • While there is much experimental work yet to be done before the present system is reliable for intership communication, or before any two systems can work within the same field without each rendering the other useless, such progress has been made by the Government experimenters that, with no...1901, Report of the Secretary of Agriculture,https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_the_Secretary_of_Agriculture/eAtEAQAAMAAJ page 15
    • VHF channels 2 and 5 are intership channels comparable to channel 40 and intended to be used in the same manner, but for distances of less than 50 miles.1955, Great Lakes and Inland Waterways, volumes 15-17, page 9

Examples of intership in a sentence

  • Calling must occur on the frequency 156.800 MHz and at least one appropriate intership frequency.1986 September 2, 47 CFR §80.115(a)(4)
  • It may occasionally be necessary to call a vessel on channel 16 but the message should be passed on an intership channel.2008, Sara Hopkinson, VHF Afloat:

Origin of intership

From inter- + ship.

Questions about intership

What does intership mean?
Intership means between ships.
How do you use intership in a sentence?
Calling must occur on the frequency 156.800 MHz and at least one appropriate intership frequency.
What part of speech is intership?
Intership is an adjective.

Words near intership in the dictionary

  1. intersheet
  2. intershell
  3. intershells
  4. intershine
  5. intershining
  6. intership
  7. intershock
  8. intershocked
  9. intershocking
  10. intershocks
  11. intershoot

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