noninteracted

Noninteracted is an adjective used to describe something that has not interacted with other entities or systems. The form is less common than noninteracting or non-interacting; when used, it typically appears in contexts where a completed interaction is described or in older or data-labeled text. In practice, noninteracted may function as a past participle modifying a noun, whereas noninteracting is used as a present participle or participial adjective.

In physics and engineering, noninteracted or non-interacting is used to denote a system in which components do not influence each other. In many models, a noninteracting particle approximation (or noninteracting electron model) assumes no inter-particle forces, allowing factorization of the state or simple analytic solutions.

In computer science and simulation, noninteracting agents are agents that do not exchange information or affect each other’s state directly; such baselines help compare against interacting models.

In social sciences and linguistics, noninteracted events or observations describe cases where no interaction occurred between subjects, which can simplify analysis or control for confounding variables.

Etymology: formed by adding the prefix non- to interact; the preferred modern forms in most technical writing are noninteracting or non-interacting. See also noninteraction, independence, isolation.