Interaction
[ɪntər'ækʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪntə'rækʃən]
Definition
(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.
Checked by Archie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Intermediate action.
(n.) Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.
Checked by Andrew
Examples
- Interaction with things may form habits of external adjustment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The ties that bind electricity and magnetism in twinship of relation and interaction were detected, and Faraday's work in induction gave the world at once the dynamo and the motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Observation is an outcome, a consequence, of the interaction of sense organ and subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The specializations of these topics are for the specialists; their interaction concerns man as a being whose experience is social. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The interaction of acids and bases may be observed in another way. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The defect of the Herbartian theory of formation through presentations consists in slighting this constant interaction and change. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It does not know what it is about; that is to say, what are its interactions with other activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Experience is in truth a matter of activities, instinctive and impulsive, in their interactions with things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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