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in⋅ter⋅ac⋅tive

[in-ter-ak-tiv]

–adjective

1.	acting one upon or with the other.

2.	of or pertaining to a two-way system of electronic communications, as by means of television or computer: interactive communications between families using two-way cable television.

3.	(of a computer program or system) interacting with a human user, often in a conversational way, to obtain data or commands and to give immediate results or updated information: For many years airline reservations have been handled by interactive computer systems.

Origin:
1825–35; inter- + active

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in·ter·ac·tive (ĭn'tər-āk'tĭv) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Acting or capable of acting on each other.
Computer Science Of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.
Of, relating to, or being a form of television entertainment in which the signal activates electronic apparatus in the viewer's home or the viewer uses the apparatus to affect events on the screen, or both.

in'ter·ac'tive·ly adv.

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