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# interaction

«interaction» in Mova's school dictionary: **When two or more people or things act on each other, talk…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an interaction, interactions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) When two or more people or things act on each other, talk or work together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#m1)

2) (science) The way two forces, chemicals or living things affect each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: interactions between animals in a food web, or between chemicals in a reaction; in medicine, a drug interaction. In everyday life and school: social interaction, interaction with the teacher. In computing: interaction with a screen or game.

### examples

- Playing together is a good kind of interaction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x1)
- Bees and flowers have a helpful interaction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x2)
- The museum has many interactions you can touch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x3)
- Some medicines have a bad interaction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x4)
- There is lots of interaction between pupils in group work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x5)
- The game reacts to every interaction with the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: interact; adjective: interactive (as in interactive whiteboard). «Inter-» means between.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interaction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interaction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.