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General dictionaries General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaction: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. reaction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. reaction: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. reaction: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Reaction: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. reaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. reaction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. reaction: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. reaction: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. reaction: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. reaction: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. reaction: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. reaction: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. Reaction (Album), Reaction (physics), Reaction (song), Reaction, The Reaction (Animorphs): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Reaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. reaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  17. reaction: Rhymezone [home, info]
  18. reaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  19. reaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  20. reaction: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. reaction: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. reaction: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. reaction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. reaction: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  25. reaction: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reaction: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. reaction: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
  3. Reaction: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
  4. Reaction: bizterms.net [home, info]
  5. Reaction: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
  6. Reaction: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  7. Reaction: Harvey Financial [home, info]
  8. Reaction, Reaction: Futures and Options Market Terminology [home, info]
  9. Reaction: Investopedia [home, info]
  10. Reaction: Taxopedia [home, info]
  11. reaction: Financial dictionary [home, info]
  12. reaction: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]
  13. Reaction: WashingtonPost.com: Business [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reaction: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaction: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. reaction: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  3. reaction: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  4. reaction: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reaction: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reaction: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Reaction: Misunderstood Physics Terms [home, info]
  3. reaction: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY [home, info]
  4. Reaction: Physic and Astronomy Glossary [home, info]
  5. Reaction: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms -- [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reaction: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. Reaction: JOIST AND STRUCTURAL GLOSSARY [home, info]
  3. Reaction: Pest Management Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (reaction)

noun:  doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like ("His style of painting was a reaction against cubism")
noun:  a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent ("A bad reaction to the medicine")
noun:  an idea evoked by some experience ("His reaction to the news was to start planning what to do")
noun:  extreme conservatism in political or social matters ("The forces of reaction carried the election")
noun:  a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude ("He was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance")
noun:  (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body ("Every action has an equal and opposite reaction")
noun:  (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others ("There was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water")

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