two-way communication
Back and forth
Two-way communication is exchange where both parties can send and receive messages, as opposed to one-way transmission like a broadcast.
The term appears in discussions of radio equipment, organizational management, and interpersonal relationships: Two-way communication between teachers and parents improves student outcomes.
A two-way radio both transmits and receives.
- conversationExchange of spoken ideas
- closed loopSystem with continuous feedback
- discussionExchange of ideas
- back and forthRepeated alternating movement
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
open dialogue · active listening · text messaging · exchange · mutual understanding · give-and-take · give and take · feedback loop · call-and-response · audience participation · town hall · transceiver · walkie talkie · duplex · negotiation · reply · interaction · correspondence
- two-way thingsbidirectional
- relatednessconnection, relation, link, tie, connectedness
two-way communicationmonologue
Uninterrupted solo address
broadcast · transmission · dissemination · proclamation · dictation
two-way communicationmonologue
Uninterrupted solo address
one-way street · talking at · lecture · sermon · soliloquy
communicate, communication, communications, communicative, communicated, communicating, communicator, communicators, miscommunication