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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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