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Coaction

//koʊˈækʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling obsolete

    "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."

  2. 2
    Collective or collaborative action. countable, uncountable

    "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 […]"

  3. 3
    act of working jointly wordnet
  4. 4
    The mapped version of an action to a cogroup. countable, uncountable

    "actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English coaccioun, from Latin coāctiō.

Etymology 2

From co- + action.

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