interaction
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WordNet 3.6
- n interaction a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
- n interaction (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Interesting fact: In astrology, synastry is the comparison of natal charts to forecast how people will interact.
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- Interaction Communication between people, or the actions of people that affect others.
- Interaction Intermediate action.
- Interaction Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.
- Interaction (Physics) The effect, such as exertion of a force, that one object exerts on another, especially the capture or emission of a particle.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Interesting fact: It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
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- n interaction Mutual or reciprocal action; action or influence of things upon each other.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
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- n Interaction action between bodies, mutual action
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Quotations
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“The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.” -
“When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.”
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“It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.”
Usage
In literature:
The remainder of it was free of the limitation of distance, touching and interacting with the minds of three other men.
"Rebels of the Red Planet" by Charles Louis Fontenay
Mental interaction flows in international channels.
"Society" by Henry Kalloch Rowe
This becomes the domain of authority, and the two interact on each other.
"Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886" by Various
They interact throughout the whole of life, and their interactions are very complex.
"Evolution in Modern Thought" by Ernst Haeckel
It would take a tremendous amount of coincidence to put all three of the interacting systems out of order at once.
"Unwise Child" by Gordon Randall Garrett
This resolves itself into the effect of the mutual interaction of mind on body and of body on mind.
"Evolution, Old & New" by Samuel Butler
The effect, therefore, is not due to any interaction between the vapour of the nitrite and its vehicle.
"Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall
These, interacting freely through continuity, virtually become one in their operations.
"New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces" by Henry Raymond Rogers
All the salts are explosive and readily interact with the alkyl iodides.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1" by Various
It gives no clew to the importance of interacting factors.
"The Settlement of Wage Disputes" by Herbert Feis
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In news:
Make sure you're not missing out on all the ways OS X 10.8 can interact with iOS devices, from iPads to the new iPhone 5.
For example, the orphaned baby sloths in the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica hug stuffed animals at all times as a way to mimic the interaction they would be having with their mother.
AlreadyBeenChewed.tv Specialty: design for new media, interactive, print and broadcast Location: Dallas, TX.
Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Indiana's only Smithsonian affiliate, will open its doors with free general admission on Saturday, Sept 29, as part of Smithsonian's Museum Day Live.
The new concept is designed to encourage customers to interact more with products, as well as store associates and other customers.
Last week, Pandora announced a new project that gives listeners an in-depth, interactive look at how their favorite songs are categorized by the personalized radio streaming service.
Jump to interactive Israel's border.
Seymour Primary School now has interactive technology in every classroom and parents are invited to experience it firsthand.
The park announced Wednesday that it is offering free, interactive lessons via Skype for students in grades three through six.
When DOE decided to increase cleanup of land along the Columbia River to finish most of it by 2015, there was a reason for the tribes and DOE to interact, he said.
"I'm always looking for a challenge and this is something I can see myself doing where I can interact with customers," he said.
See the latest INTERACTIVE Doppler Radar image and Tropical Storm and Hurricane tracks.
Of course, that can make for some awkward interactions.
Join us for an after-hour event like no other, fusing the Museum's latest exhibitions with music, performance art and interactive experiences.
Companion site for the PBS documentary including an essay, interactive timeline, and video clips.
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In science:
Regarding eq. (7), it is important to note: being the distance-dependent, all the original interactions (the Coulomb interaction and the nuclear interaction in eq. (5)) transform into the “external fields” (the one-particle potentials V (ˆ~ρRi )) for the “relative particles” system R.
On the existence of the "classical trajectories" of atoms in the Stern-Gerlach experiment
The particles in the RLPM interact via two types of interactions: a repulsive interaction vE between all pairs of particles (either direct or mediated via a solvent); and an attractive interaction vL between the pairs of particles that are chosen at random to be linked.
Soft random solids and their heterogeneous elasticity
When the interaction is weak compared to the bandwidth (or Fermi energy), it is standard to use the non-interacting limit as the reference point, and adopt the interaction normalized by the kinetic energy as a small parameter for perturbation theory.
Correlation effects in the iron pnictides
An exponential fit to the depth distribution of the first interaction in showers as a function of the distance z (in nuclear interaction length λI units) from the start of the calorimeter was performed, and the interaction length for π− mesons was extracted , right panel of Fig. 3.
Tile HCAL Test Beam Analysis: Positron and Hadron Studies
We apply an interaction quench within the Fermi liquid phase of the Hubbard model by switching on a weak interaction suddenly; then we follow the real-time dynamics of the momentum distribution by a systematic expansion in the interaction strength based on the flow equation method .
Real-time evolution for weak interaction quenches in quantum systems
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