English noun: interaction |
1. | interaction (act) a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | action |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | contact, give-and-take, interchange, interplay, reciprocation |
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2. | interaction (phenomenon) (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons |
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| Synonyms | fundamental interaction |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | color force, electromagnetic interaction, gravitational interaction, strong force, strong interaction, weak force, weak interaction |
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| Domain category | natural philosophy, physics |
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