| Adj. | 1. | interactive - used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) Synonyms: synergistic |
| 2. | interactive - capable of acting on or influencing each other Synonyms: interactional |
| 1. | INTERACTIVE - A network simulation language. ["Design and Implementation of a Pascal Based Interactive Network Simulation Language", R. Lakshmanan, PhD Thesis, Oakland U, Rochester MI 1983]. | ||
| 2. | (programming) | interactive - A term describing a program whose input and
output are interleaved, like a conversation, allowing the
user's input to depend on earlier output from the same run. The interaction with the user is usually conducted through either a text-based interface or a graphical user interface. Other kinds of interface, e.g. using speech recognition and/or speech synthesis, are also possible. This is in contrast to batch processing where all the input is prepared before the program runs and so cannot depend on the program's output. |