Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of interacting.
- noun The state of undergoing interaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mutual or reciprocal action; action or influence of things upon each other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Intermediate action.
- noun Mutual or reciprocal action or influence.
- noun (Physics) The effect, such as exertion of a force, that one object exerts on another, especially the capture or emission of a particle.
- noun Communication between people, or the actions of people that affect others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
situation oroccurrence in which two or moreobjects orevents act uponone another to produce a neweffect ; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence. - noun A
conversation orexchange between people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
- noun (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I don't think the interaction is any less personal than a letter.
Keep in Touch 2006
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For some this interaction is the most sustained human contact of their entire lives.
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Scott Rosenberg writes about blogs and reader criticism, why news articles are so poorly written, and how the interaction is affecting people's views of the media.
Gini's Birthday Party.... tessbelle 2005
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This interaction is also key to our discussion of the interactivity between reader and the illuminated poems.
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The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.
May 2010 2010
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The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.
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Finally, any definition of scaffolding needs to highlight the fact that this kind of interaction is a site for learning opportunities, and is not simply a way of modelling, supporting, or practising interaction.
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The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.
Poetry 2010
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Finally, any definition of scaffolding needs to highlight the fact that this kind of interaction is a site for learning opportunities, and is not simply a way of modelling, supporting, or practising interaction.
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The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.
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