interchange vs interaction

interaction vs interchange

interchange and interaction both are nouns.

interchange is a verb but interaction is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
interchange	Yes	No	Yes	No
interaction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, interaction is a hypernym of interchange; that is, interaction is a word with a broader meaning than interchange:

interchange: mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
interaction: a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting

interchange (noun)	interaction (noun)
the act of changing one thing for another thing	a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)	(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams

interchange (verb)	interaction (verb)
reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
cause to change places
give to, and receive from, one another
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

Difference between interchange and interaction

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