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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

... Purdy's summary, I recalled my own reaction after the United Airlines report. After seeing the Pentagon comment, I had called up Captain Tom Brown, at ...

— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe

... they both quickly, and "with life" brought their bodies forward and their arms downward; nay, they but attempted, for scarcely had they left the vertical ere their bodies collided, and they were each hurled impetuously, by the inevitable reaction in opposite directions, over a distance ...

— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

... What did you want to get in the way of the car for, anyhow?" demanded the motorman. He was nervously excited, and the reaction at finding, after all, he had not killed a man, ...

— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope

... much of a blank to Benita. When they reached shore some old friends of her father's took her and him to their house, a quiet place upon the Berea. Here, now that the first excitement of rescue and grief was over, the inevitable reaction set in, bringing with it weakness so distressing that the doctor insisted upon her going to bed, where she remained for the next five days. With the healing up of the wound in her head her strength came back to ...

— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard

... we may suppose, had not been without influence in bringing about this sudden and astonishing reaction, although he was not present in person; and had scarcely learned the news of Savonarola's fall and arrest when he claimed him as subject to ecclesiastical jurisdiction. But in spite of the grant of indulgences wherewith this demand was accompanied, ...

— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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