interactive
Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.
Adjective
- Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.
- interactive teaching methods
- two interactive systems
- Offering or involving interaction with the user.
- an interactive digital map with zoom and pan features
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active English interactive From inter- + active.
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interactive fiction interactive geofiction interactively interactiveness interactive teller machine interactive whiteboard interpassive noninteractive non-interactive preinteractive
Noun
- A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
- The show includes computer interactives, animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification). - 2009 June 26, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times: