MEANING
1. To communicate with, respond to, or influence one another.
2. To combine so that one variable’s effect changes with the value or level of another.
Use it for
describing mutual influence between people or systems; distinguishing two-way engagement from one-way exposure; showing that factors act together rather than in isolationSeparates reciprocal influence or communication from the specific statistical meaning of a conditional effect. Writing functions: Causation / Relationships, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- interact with participants
- interact with the environment
- factors interact
On the page
The study examines how institutional rules and local practices interact.
Participants could observe the display without being able to interact with it.
In the model, treatment and prior experience interact: the treatment effect differs across experience levels.
Two predictors may interact even when neither has a simple, constant effect across the whole sample.
Word forms
- Base
- interact
- Past tense
- interacted
- Past participle
- interacted
- Present participle
- interacting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- interact
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interacting
- Present perfect
- have/has interacted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interacting
- Past
- interacted
- Past continuous
- was/were interacting
- Past perfect
- had interacted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interacting
- Future
- will interact
- Future continuous
- will be interacting
- Future perfect
- will have interacted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interacting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive verb: interacts, interacted, interacted, interacting; future will interact. Interact with; plural factors can interact. No direct object in ordinary use. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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