answeringгерундий или причастие настоящего времени Used attributively or predicatively to mean ‘responsive’ or to denote something designed for answering, e.g. ‘answering machine’.
Определения
Responding or reacting; responsive. The owl gave an answering hoot from the dark trees.
Designed for or used in receiving and recording telephone calls. We bought an answering machine so we wouldn’t miss any messages.