{
  "id": "interacting.social",
  "term": "interacting",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "interacting",
  "domain": "interaction.process",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when two things change each other while touching",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "touch.together",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "two things change each other and are in contact, producing interaction",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual change",
      "contact-dependent interaction",
      "temporal sequence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2012, two billiard balls collided on a felt table at 2.3 m/s, exchanging momentum and altering trajectories.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every 90 minutes, circadian pacemaker neurons in the human suprachiasmatic nucleus adjust each other's firing rates through synaptic contact.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2008 financial crisis, banks' interlocking credit default swaps amplified losses across institutions through direct contractual links.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "brown.color",
    "community.social",
    "competition.social",
    "forum.social",
    "friend.social",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "meeting.social",
    "network.system",
    "party.social",
    "people.social",
    "playful.behavioral",
    "response.behavioral",
    "social.relational",
    "stop.action"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "interact",
    "interacted",
    "interacting",
    "interacts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'time.dimension' as it is necessary for 'change'; updated components to fully ground definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interacting.social"
}