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coactions

coactions is the plural of coaction.

Meaning of coaction

Noun (1)

coaction

  1. (obsolete) 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.

Noun (2)

coaction (countable and uncountable, plural coactions)

  1. 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
  2. The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.
    • actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras

Questions about coactions

What is coactions the plural of?
Coactions is the plural of coaction.

Words near coactions in the dictionary

  1. coacted
  2. coactee
  3. coactees
  4. coacting
  5. coaction
  6. coactions
  7. coactivate
  8. coactivated
  9. coactivates
  10. coactivating
  11. coactivation

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