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coaction
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English coaccioun, from Latin coāctiō.
Noun
coaction
- (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.
- November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
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Etymology 2
Noun
coaction (countable and uncountable, plural coactions)
- Collective or collaborative action.
- 1997, Lauren B. Resnick, Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition:
- 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 […]
- (mathematics) The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.
- actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras
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