comint

1. 1.

   technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients

   Synonymscommunications intelligence

   Broadersignals intelligence

Other forms of comint

plural

comints·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comint

What does comint mean?

comint means "technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients".

How many syllables are in comint?

comint has 2 syllables: co-mint. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for comint?

Close synonyms include communications intelligence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comint a common word?

comint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.