Definition of interaction
: mutual or reciprocal action or influence
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Examples of interaction in a Sentence
she guessed from the friendly interaction that they were close to the other parents in the organization
Recent Examples of interaction from the Web
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The Fort Walton Beach Police Department strives to provide superior police services to all citizens and uses opportunities such as this to learn and refine our interactions with the public.
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For one, Comey is an important witness to Mueller, and several of his key interactions with Trump occurred without anyone else present.
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Switching to a nocturnal lifestyle can affect natural patterns of life even if these animals are doing so to reduce their interaction with humans.
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Seven percent said the police were hostile and 12% said that the police were indifferent in their interactions.
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The participants, including Trump, seemed unusually awkward, their interactions stilted, and their posing over in a matter of seconds.
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Your interactions with food were always about more than what was on the plate.
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But some researchers have proposed a type of neutrino that doesn't interact via the weak force, leaving its only interactions to come via gravity.
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Eleven Milwaukee police officers will be disciplined or retrained as a result of their interaction with Brown.
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First Known Use of interaction
1832
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INTERACTION Defined for Kids
Definition of interaction for Students
1
: the act of talking or doing things with other people
- Board games encourage interaction.
2
: the action or influence of things on one another
- interaction of the heart and lungs
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