coaction

noun — 3 senses

coaction

noun

UK /kəʊˈakʃən/ · US /koʊˈækʃən/

Etymology Inherited from Middle English coaccioun, from Latin coāctiō.

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.

coaction

noun

Etymology From co- + action.

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

Mathematics, Sciences The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.

actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras

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