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Reaction

noun

(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others. Synonym: chemical reaction.

An idea evoked by some experience.

A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent. Synonym: response. "His responses have slowed with age"

(mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body.

A response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude. "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"

Extreme conservatism in political or social matters.

Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like.

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"Reaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... The reaction after the complete silence and the long-strung-up tension, together with the fierce battle witnessed and the decisive victory, was very great. No need of silence now, but the boys were so excited they hardly knew whether to laugh or cry. Frank said he wanted to howl. Alec said he wanted to dance. ...

— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

... of the French Revolution a reaction set in against tight lacing, and for a time there was a return to the early classical Greek costume. This style of dress prevailed, with various modifications, until about 1810 when corsets and tight lacing again returned with threefold fury. Buchan, ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... taken the drastic step of threatening complete non-intercourse With Canada, a reaction set in, and many Americans began to consider whether some more pacific and thoroughgoing solution could not be found. Two were suggested, political ...

— The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier - A Chronicle of Our Own Time • Oscar D. Skelton

... is strictly psychological, not vivisectional; and it is our special purpose to bring animal psychology more in contact with those methods which have found their development in the laboratories for human psychology. The use of the reaction-time method for the study of the frog, as described in the fifteenth paper, may stand as a typical illustration ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... by a certain effort, manage to place ourselves back on the standpoint of childlike poetic faith of that time, and set aside in thought the materializing and exaggeration of the hagiology and Mariolatry produced by later centuries, rendering the reaction of the Reformation unavoidable—if now in our age, turned exclusively to logical ideas and a negative dialectic, we live again by thought in those ages of feeling and poetry—if we acknowledge all these things to be something more than ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

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