INTERPLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interplay mean? 

• INTERPLAY (noun)
  The noun INTERPLAY has 1 sense:

1. reciprocal action and reaction

  Familiarity information: INTERPLAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERPLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reciprocal action and reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("interplay" is a kind of...):

interaction (a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting)

 Context examples 

These intriguing results in an animal model show that the interplay of total caloric intake and the length of feeding and fasting periods deserves a closer look.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)

The cell cycle is regulated by the interplay of many molecules.

(Cyclin Regulation of Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The complex interplay of these different cytokine functions with immune cells is essential for correct immune function.

(Cytokine Network Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

He had accepted the world as the world, but now he was comprehending the organization of it, the play and interplay of force and matter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Given what we currently know about intelligence, an interplay of both processes seems most likely.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

December 3 brings an interplay between Venus in your financial house and Mars in your behind-the-scenes sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It may play a fundamental role in situations where fine interplay between intracellular Ca(2+) and cAMP determines the cellular function.

(Adenylate Cyclase, NCI Thesaurus)

"This study shows the interplay of nutrients and viruses on diatom populations in the ocean."

(Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans, National Science Foundation)

In the new study, researchers combine recent advances to disentangle the interplay between the constraints that act on the ice-liquid transition in nanometer-sized clusters.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

You can know only that much of the play and interplay of force and matter as impinges in one way or another on our senses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)