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interactor

noun
/ˌɪntɚˈæktɚ/US/ˌɪntəɹˈæktə/UK

Etymology

From interact + -or or inter- + actor.

  1. derived from *h₂éǵeti✻
  2. derived from ācta
  3. derived from acte
  4. inherited from acte
  5. prefixed as interact — “inter + act”
  6. suffixed as interactor — “interact + or”

Definitions

  1. One who interacts.

    • The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for interactor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA