coaction

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English coaccion, from Latin coāctiō.

Noun

coaction

1. (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.

Etymology 2

co- +‎ action

Noun

coaction (countable and uncountable, plural coactions)

1. 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 […]

2. (mathematics) The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.

   actions and coactions of measured groupoids on von Neumann algebras

Anagrams

• octanoic