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 or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
  • noun A conversation or exchange 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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

inter- +‎ action

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Examples

  • And I don't think the interaction is any less personal than a letter.

    Keep in Touch 2006

  • For some this interaction is the most sustained human contact of their entire lives.

    inkblurt · Lessig on LambdaMOO (aka Web 2.0?) 2006

  • 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

  • This interaction is also key to our discussion of the interactivity between reader and the illuminated poems.

    Blake's Contraries Game 2005

  • The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.

    May 2010 2010

  • The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.

    The Reading Experience 2010

  • 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.

    S is for Scaffolding « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.

    Poetry 2010

  • 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.

    April « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The mere accumulation of friends, followers, and hits, evidence of "interaction," is the end-in-itself.

    News of the Poetry World 2010

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