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Meaning of coaction | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/kəʊˈakʃən/

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Español coacción
Français coaction

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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