interaction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin interāctiō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.ʃən/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ækʃən

Noun

interaction (countable and uncountable, plural interactions)

1. The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.

   Be aware of interactions between different medications.

   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     Such technologies will also “shape future human interaction with the machines we created,” he added.

   • 2019 October, “'442s' withdrawn due to signal interaction issues”, in Modern Railways, page 87:

     At the beginning of September South Western Railway withdrew its Class 442 EMUs from service due to a safety issue concerning interaction with lineside signals.

2. A conversation or exchange between people.

   I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people.

   • 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 46:

     Another 'basic' is staff interaction with customers - and here, ScotRail excelled. Every single one of them whom RAIL engaged with was polite and chatty, and some were even humorous!

Derived terms

• autointeraction
• biointeraction
• cisinteraction
• cyberinteraction
• electromagnetic interaction
• electroweak interaction
• fundamental interaction
• gravitational interaction
• human-computer interaction
• hyperinteraction
• interactional
• interaction design
• interactionism
• interactionist
• interactionless
• interaction matrix
• interaction picture
• interaction space
• macrointeraction
• magnetism-based interaction capture
• microinteraction
• nanointeraction
• noninteraction
• pseudointeraction
• reinteraction
• selfinteraction
• strong interaction
• strong nuclear interaction
• subinteraction
• transinteraction
• weak interaction
• weak nuclear interaction
• Yukawa interaction

Related terms

• interact
• interactive

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: interaksie
• → Indonesian: interaksi
• → Malay: interaksi
• → Javanese: interaksi

Translations

situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another

• Afrikaans: interaksie
• Albanian: bashkëveprim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَآثُر m (taʔāṯur)
• Armenian: փոխազդեցություն (hy) (pʻoxazdecʻutʻyun)
• Belarusian: узаемадзе́янне n (uzajemadzjéjannje)
• Bulgarian: взаимоде́йствие (bg) n (vzaimodéjstvie)
• Catalan: interacció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相互作用 (zh) (xiānghù zuòyòng)

• Czech: interakce (cs) f
• Danish: vekselvirkning c, interaktion c
• Dutch: wisselwerking (nl) f, interactie (nl) f
• Esperanto: interagado, interago
• Finnish: vuorovaikutus (fi), kanssakäyminen (fi)
• French: interaction (fr) f
• Galician: interacción (gl) f
• Georgian: ინტერაქცია (inṭerakcia), ურთიერთქმედება (urtiertkmedeba), ურთიერთზეგავლენა (urtiertzegavlena), ურთიერთკავშირი (urtiertḳavširi)
• German: Interaktion (de) f, Wechselwirkung (de) f
• Greek: αλληλεπίδραση (el) f (allilepídrasi), διάδραση (el) f (diádrasi) (technical)
• Hebrew: יַחֲסֵי גּוֹמְלִין (he) m pl (yaḥaséy gomlín), אִינְטֶרְאַקְצְיָה (he) f (interáktsiya)
• Hungarian: kölcsönhatás (hu), interakció (hu)
• Ido: interago
• Irish: idirghníomhaíocht f, idirghníomhú m, idirghníomh m, idirghníomhúchán m, imghníomhú m, idirfheidhm f, (biology) imoibriú m
• Italian: interazione (it) f
• Japanese: 相互作用 (ja) (そうごさよう, sōgosayō)
• Korean: 상호작용(相互作用) (ko) (sanghojagyong)
• Latin: interaction
• Latvian: mijiedarbība f
• Macedonian: заемоде́јство n (zaemodéjstvo), интеракција f (interakcija)
• Malay: saling tindak, interaksi
• Maltese: interazzjoni f
• Maori: pāhekohekotanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: interaksjon (no) m, samspill n, vekselvirkning m or f

  Nynorsk: interaksjon m, samspel n

• Persian: برهم‌کنش (fa) (barham-koneš)
• Polish: interakcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: interação (pt) f
• Romanian: interacțiune (ro) f, interacționare f
• Russian: взаимоде́йствие (ru) n (vzaimodéjstvije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-oibreachadh m, eadar-obrachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: интера̀кција f

  Roman: interàkcija (sh) f

• Slovak: interakcia f
• Slovene: interakcija f
• Spanish: interacción (es) f, interrelación (es) f, coacción (es) f
• Swedish: växelverkan (sv) c, interaktion (sv) c
• Tagalog: tambilos
• Ukrainian: взаємоді́я (uk) f (vzajemodíja)

conversation or exchange between people

• Afrikaans: interaksie
• Albanian: bashkëveprim (sq) m
• Arabic: مُخَالَطَة f (muḵālaṭa), تَفَاعُل m (tafāʕul), اِخْتِلَاط m (iḵtilāṭ)
• Belarusian: зно́сіны f pl (znósiny)
• Bulgarian: общу́ване (bg) n (obštúvane), обще́ние n (obšténie)
• Catalan: interacció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相互作用 (zh) (xiānghù zuòyòng), 互動 / 互动 (zh) (hùdòng), 交流 (zh) (jiāoliú)

• Czech: komunikace (cs) f
• Dutch: interactie (nl) f
• Finnish: keskustelu (fi)
• French: interaction (fr) f
• Galician: interacción (gl) f
• Georgian: ინტერაქცია (inṭerakcia), ურთიერთობა (urtiertoba)
• German: Interaktion (de) f
• Greek: αλληλεπίδραση (el) f (allilepídrasi)

  Ancient: ὁμιλία f (homilía)

• Irish: caidreamh m
• Italian: interazione (it) f
• Japanese: 相互作用 (ja) (そうごさよう, sōgosayō)
• Korean: 상호작용(相互作用) (ko) (sanghojagyong)
• Macedonian: општење n (opštenje)
• Maltese: interazzjoni f
• Maori: tauwhitiwhiti, taunekeneke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: interaksjon (no) f, samhandling m or f

• Polish: komunikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: interação (pt) f
• Romanian: interacțiune (ro) f
• Russian: обще́ние (ru) n (obščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: интера̀кција f

  Roman: interàkcija (sh) f

• Slovak: komunikácia f
• Slovene: občevanje n
• Ukrainian: спілкува́ння n (spilkuvánnja)

French

Etymology

Either borrowed from English interaction or constructed from inter- +‎ action.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁak.sjɔ̃/ ~ /ɛ̃.te.ʁak.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

interaction f (plural interactions)

1. interaction

Derived terms

• interaction électromagnétique
• interaction élémentaire
• interaction faible
• interaction fondamentale
• interaction forte
• interaction gravitationnelle
• interaction nucléaire faible

Related terms

• interagir

Further reading

• “interaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.