verb. Present participle of handshake.

noun. A greeting by clasping hands.

noun. A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for communications.

noun. grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

"There would be a brief interval of electronic 'handshaking' and error correction; then the picture would return and ROV 3's pilot, four kilometers above, could resume progress."

acknowledgement  acknowledgment  

Catholicism  Godspeed  breakfast  chock-full  coldnesse  

handshake  handspring