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Interaction   /ˌɪntərˈækʃən/  /ˌɪnərˈækʃən/   Listen
Interaction

noun
1.
A mutual or reciprocal action; interacting.
2.
(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons.  Synonym: fundamental interaction.



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"Interaction" Quotes from Famous Books



... are chiefly responsible for Shakespeare's fame. It was principally owing to their writings that the interaction took place between writers and public which expressed itself, and is still expressing itself, in an insane worship of Shakespeare which has no rational foundation. These esthetic critics have written ...
— Tolstoy on Shakespeare - A Critical Essay on Shakespeare • Leo Tolstoy

... Freudenberg, therefore, further concluded that tannin is mainly an ester compound of glucose and 5 molecules m-digallic acid. Elucidation on this point offered itself advantageously in Herzwig's methylotannin, [Footnote: Ber., 1905, 38, 989.] which is obtained by the interaction of diazomethane and tannin. The first step was then ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser

... the action of the nervous mechanism. An impression, which without them might have forthwith ended in reflex action, is delayed, and with this duration come all those important effects arising through the interaction of many impressions, old and ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... would show definitely the interaction between mind and body. At present we can only guess what this interaction may be. In some cases the relations are evident, but in most they are vague and often unsuspected. The psychologists, whose pretensions are so great and whose actual results are still so small, may ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various


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