Reaction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of reacting
• something done, felt, or thought in response to a situation or event
• an adverse physiological response to a substance that has been breathed in, ingested, or touched
• a mode of thinking or behaving that is deliberately different from previous modes of thought and behaviour
• opposition to political or social progress or reform
• a chemical process in which substances act mutually on each other and are changed into different substances, or one substance changes into other substances
• an analogous transformation of atomic nuclei or other particles
• a force exerted in opposition to an applied force
• physical or emotional response to a stimulus
• Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
• The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
• An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
• The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
• Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
• (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
• an idea evoked by some experience
• a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
• (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
• extreme conservatism in political or social matters
• doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don\'t like
• a person's ability to respond physically and mentally to external stimuli

Words related to REACTION

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How to use REACTION in a sentence

• It had ever been the mark of their talk that the oldest allusions in it required but a little dismissal and reaction to come out again, sounding for the hour as new.
• We have lately watched, in the literature of our own day, a somewhat similar reaction against sentimental pictures of country-life.
• It may be of the nature of a reaction against certain canons of taste too long blindly followed.
• Austin seems to have a sort of Marie-Antoinette reaction towards a somewhat painfully achieved simplicity.
• Temperature has a marked influence upon the rapidity and continuity of the reaction.
• In the meantime the spirit of reaction, to use a modern phrase, began to set in.
• We have seen that an anti-English reaction followed the deaths of Malcolm and Margaret.
• And it soon appeared that these types of reaction, as it seems proper to call them, would have to be considered in any determination of the mean reaction time.
• But there was hardly time to execute these measures, so rapid was the reaction.
• Now that excitement and suspense were over, and there was nothing that called for activity, Desmond felt the natural reaction from the strain he had undergone.
• It would be like her to undergo such a reaction of feeling, and to express it, not in words, but by taking up their relation as if there had been no break in it.
• After the many sad and trying duties of our calling, father, we need some one like Vallie Fairleigh to call forth a reaction of the mind.
• When the theological reaction followed, they fell into disuse and neglect, and their final ruin followed when it was found cheaper to pull them down than keep them in repair.
• In France, the reaction against a like state of things brought the church to the verge of destruction, and led the masses to infidelity and materialism.
• It has been very interesting to note the reaction of American methods upon those previously in vogue in neighbouring colonies.
• There has been a reaction against bounty legislation of recent years.
• Tone must be placed spontaneously, with reaction and reflection.
• His pathetic reaction was strange although undoubtedly provoked.
• What has happened? The simple physical fact of reaction under too sudden an exposure to heat after exposure to cold.
• But this weakness was followed by a fierce reaction.

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