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- React - v. t. - To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
- React - v. i. - To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
- React - v. i. - To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- Reaction - n. - Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
- Reaction - n. - 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.
- Reaction - n. - 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.
- Reaction - n. - The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
- Reaction - n. - Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
- Reactionaries - pl. - of Reactionary
- Reactionary - a. - Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
- Reactionary - n. - One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
- Reactionist - n. - A reactionary.
- Reactive - a. - Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
- React - v. t. - To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.