Coaction Definition

kō-ăkshən
noun
Coercion; force.
Webster's New World
Cooperative action.
Webster's New World
Any of the reciprocal actions or effects, such as symbiosis, that can occur in a community.
American Heritage
Any important interaction between two organisms, as in symbiosis or parasitism.
Webster's New World
(mathematics)
Actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Coaction

Noun

Singular:
coaction
Plural:
coactions

Origin of Coaction

  • Middle English coaccioun from Latin coāctiō coāctiōn- a collecting from coāctus past participle of cōgere to collect, condense coagulum Senses 2 and 3 co– action

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin coactio.

    From Wiktionary

  • co- +‎ action

    From Wiktionary

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