coaction
UK/kəʊˈakʃən/US/koʊˈækʃən/
coaction noun: force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
Noun (1)
coaction
- Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
It had the passions in perfect subjection; and though its command over them was persuasive and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and despotical.
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
Noun (2)
coaction (countable and uncountable, plural coactions)
- Collective or collaborative action.
- In the coaction condition, however, where the children did not have any opportunity to interact with one another, the mixed gender pairings produced a marked and statistically significant polarization of performance […]1997, Lauren B. Resnick, Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition
- The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.
- actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras
Forms of coaction
| plural | coactions |
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Origin of coaction
Inherited from Middle English coaccioun, from Latin coāctiō.
From co- + action.
Questions about coaction
- What does coaction mean?
- Coaction means force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
- What part of speech is coaction?
- Coaction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coaction?
- Coaction is pronounced /kəʊˈakʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of coaction?
- The plural of coaction is coactions.
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