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coaction

Noun CEFR B2
kəʊˈakʃən

Definitions

  1. Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling
  2. Collective or collaborative action.
  3. The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.

Equivalents

Españolcoacción
Françaiscoaction

Examples

“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.”
“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 […]”
“actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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