Temporarily relationship in communication

What is the relationship that two people form when they are communicating called? Let's imagine that you meet someone on the street and have a brief chat. What is that synergy called?


Solution 1:

To emphasize the unexpected and relatively short aspects of such a meeting would be that you "encountered" somebody.

[Merriam-Webster]
encounter
transitive verb
: "to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly"

intransitive verb
: "to meet especially by chance"