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/ˌɪntərˈækʃən/ /ˌɪnərˈækʃən/ Listen

noun

Interaction n.

Intermediate action.

Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.

Hence: (Physics) The effect, such as exertion of a force, that one object exerts on another, especially the capture or emission of a particle.

Communication between people, or the actions of people that affect others.

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Etymology of 'Interaction'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... be completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population —- and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of ...

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... exploration to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system; (2) utilize the space telescope and free-flying satellites to usher in a new era of astronomy; (3) develop a better understanding of the sun and its interaction with the terrestrial environment; and (4) utilize the Shuttle and Spacelab to conduct basic research that complements earth-based life ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... subjective, too analytic, too psychological, for quick or easy understanding. But to the reader they offer many delights. The stories are clear, coherent, interesting; the characters strongly individualized; the crises of experience stimulating; the interaction of personalities subtly analyzed; the poetry ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... Northern Europe as habitable as it is, and that the Polar currents on the shores of Greenland and Labrador prevent any richer development of civilization in these regions. But it is only recently that modern investigation of the ocean has begun to show the intimate interaction between sea and air; an interaction which makes it probable that we shall be able to forecast the main variations in climate from year to year, as soon as we have a sufficiently large material in the shape ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... earnestness of this passage suggests to us how constantly recurrent in Wordsworth's mind were the two trains of ideas which form the substance of the poem; the interaction, namely, (if so it may be termed,) of the moods of Nature with the moods of the human mind; and the dignity and interest of man as man, depicted with no complex background of social or political life, but set amid the primary affections and sorrows, and the wild ...

— Wordsworth • F. W. H. Myers

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