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

  1. 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
  2. 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.

Forms

more interactive most interactive

Related

interaction interactivity

Derived

interactive fiction interactive geofiction interactively interactiveness interactive teller machine interactive whiteboard interpassive noninteractive non-interactive preinteractive

Noun

  1. 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:

Forms

interactives