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interplay, n.|ˈɪntəpleɪ| [inter- 2 a.] Reciprocal play, free interaction; mutual operation of two things or agents in influencing each other's action or character.
1862Dana Man. Geol. 45 The two [series of winds] pass into one another in mutual interplay. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 343 That interplay of plot and character which makes Shakespeare more real..than other dramatists. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. ii. xii. 228 Explanation of the operations of nature was impossible while man had no..knowledge of the interplay of its several parts. So interplay v. intr., to exert mutual influence.
1890Amer. Missionary (N.Y.) Dec. 403 Let these two institutions advance together, play and interplay upon and within each other. |