interactive

The definition of interactive is action and communication between two people or two things, such as two-way communication.

(adjective)

An example of an interactive game is one in which you communicate with the game and the game gives feedback back based on what you said or did.

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See interactive in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

  1. acting on one another; reciprocally active
  2. designating or of programming or electronic equipment, as for TV, videodiscs, etc., which allows viewers to participate, as by making a response, influencing the pace of the action, etc.
  3. of or involving a mode of operation in which there is a continual exchange of information between the computer and the user at a video screen

See interactive in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Acting or capable of acting on each other.
  2. Computer Science Of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.
  3. 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.

Related Forms:

  • inˌter·acˈtive·ly adverb

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