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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
coaction en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /koʊˈækʃən/ (US)
- /kəʊˈakʃən/ (UK)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English coaccioun, from Latin coāctiō.
Meanings
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(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.
Translations (1)
es coacción (force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling)
coaction en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /koʊˈækʃən/ (US)
- /kəʊˈakʃən/ (UK)
Etymology
From co- + action.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
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(countable, uncountable) The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.
actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras
Forms
Translations (1)
es coacción (Translations)