reaction
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
reaction/riˈakʃn/
▶noun
- 1 an instance of reacting to or against something.
■ (reactions) a person's ability to respond physically and mentally to external stimuli.
- 2 opposition to political or social progress or reform.
- 3 a process in which substances interact causing chemical or physical change.
- 4 Physics a force exerted in opposition to an applied force.
– derivatives
reactionist noun & adjective.
reactionist noun & adjective.
'reaction' also found in these Oxford entries:
active site
- addition reaction
- adduct
- allergen
- anamnestic
- anaphylaxis
- answer
- arsine
- asthma
- atopic
- attract
- autocatalysis
- backlash
- bioreactor
- breed
- brouhaha
- brrr
- button
- calorimeter
- Calvin cycle
- carbonate
- catalyse
- catalysis
- catalyst
- chain reaction
- change
- chemiluminescence
- come
- comment
- condensation
- copolymer
- counter-transference
- critical
- critical mass
- cyclize
- dark reaction
- defence mechanism
- dermatitis
- disproportionation
- double decomposition
- double take
- electron pair
- eliminate
- endothermic
- end point
- enzyme
- equation
- excite
- exothermic
- feeling
