Definition of Coaction

1. Noun. Act of working jointly. "They worked either in collaboration or independently"

Exact synonyms: Collaboration
Generic synonyms: Cooperation
Derivative terms: Coact, Collaborate

Definition of Coaction

1. n. Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

Definition of Coaction

1. Noun. (obsolete) force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coaction

1. joint action [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coaction

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coachsmiths
coachspeak
coachwhip
coachwhip snake
coachwhipping
coachwhips
coachwoman
coachwomen
coachwork
coachworks
coachy
coact
coacted
coacting
coaction (current term)
coactions
coactivate
coactivated
coactivates
coactivating
coactivation
coactivations
coactivator
coactivators
coactive
coactively
coactivities
coactivity
coactor

Literary usage of Coaction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Embassy to the Court of St. James's in 1840 by Guizot (François) (1862)
"troops, these means of coaction were very vaguely expressed, and ended in an engagement to concert anew in case more active measures should become necessary ..."

2. Concrete-steel Construction by Henry Turner Eddy, Claude Allen Porter Turner (1914)
"The coaction of one diagonal belt with another is brought about by the coaction of the steel in one belt under strain with the steel in the other belt under ..."

3. A Search Made Into Matters of Religion by Francis Walsingham (1843)
"... but only for that we are free from coaction of enforcement." Whereby he would infer that Peter Lombard doth grant that we are not free from necessity in ..."

4. Of the Church, Five Books by Richard Field (1849)
"The third kind of liberty is opposite, not only to coaction, but natural necessity also: in opposition to coaction, the understanding is free; for howsoever ..."

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