interacting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of interact.

   Researchers filmed the dolphins interacting near the boat.

   Interacting with customers all day takes real patience.

   Note

   A form of a verb that never takes a direct object. You interact with someone, never interact someone, so the partner arrives after with, as in interacting with customers. In its other meaning, things affecting each other, a plural subject can carry the sense alone: the two drugs are interacting. Before a noun, the same spelling becomes the adjective for active participants, as in interacting particles.

2. 2
   adjective

   Taking an active part in an interaction, affecting and being affected by another person, force, or system.

   Physicists model interacting particles to predict how forces combine.

   The interacting departments coordinated their budgets every quarter.

   Similarinterdependent, interrelated

   Oppositeindependent, isolated

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