{
  "id": "interaction.process",
  "term": "interaction",
  "sense": "process",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When two things change each other.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "energy.capacity"
    ],
    "interaction": "Energy passes between two things so that each changes the other.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual causation",
      "coupling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Two billiard balls collide on a pool table, each altering the other's speed and direction.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bees and flowers exchange pollen and nectar, each transforming the other's biological state.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin nodes update their ledgers in response to each other’s transactions, reshaping the network’s state.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "interaction is change that runs both ways"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "act.deed",
    "beauty.aesthetic",
    "blue.color",
    "brown.color",
    "business.economic",
    "cause.reason",
    "chain-reaction.stacked",
    "color.visual",
    "community.social",
    "connection.social",
    "connects.verb",
    "discussion.social",
    "establishes.verb",
    "force.push",
    "forum.social",
    "friend.social",
    "going-viral.excess",
    "greater-than-the-sum.excess",
    "help.assistance",
    "in-sync.harmony",
    "join.connection",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "make.verb",
    "meeting.social",
    "network.system",
    "on-the-ground.local",
    "on-the-same-wavelength.resonance",
    "party.social",
    "people.social",
    "play.game",
    "please.politeness",
    "price.economic",
    "relation.association",
    "request.social",
    "research.investigation",
    "response.behavioral",
    "ripple-effect.stacked",
    "see.visual",
    "self-fulfilling-prophecy.stacked-dependency",
    "social.relational",
    "society.social",
    "stop.action",
    "system.organized",
    "talk.spoken",
    "touch.together",
    "war.conflict",
    "web.structure",
    "where-the-rubber-meets-the-road.threshold",
    "word-of-mouth.excess",
    "yellow.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "interact",
    "interaction",
    "interactions",
    "interacts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interaction.process"
}