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transaction

noun
/tɹænˈzækʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

  1. derived from transactio
  2. derived from transaccion
  3. borrowed from transaction

Definitions

  1. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

    • The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.

  2. A deal or business agreement.

  3. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

    • I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

    2. An atomic operation

      An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).

    3. A record of the proceedings of a learned society.

    4. A social interaction.

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Derived

bed-and-breakfast transaction, e-transaction, microtransaction, personal transaction, posttransaction, pretransaction, subtransaction, supertransaction, transactional, transactionalism, transactionalization, transactionally, transactionary, transaction block, transaction cost, transaction data, transaction journal, transactionless, transaction time, transaction utility

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at transaction. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at transaction. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at transaction

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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