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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
- extreme conservatism in political or social matters
- the forces of reaction carried the election
- a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude
- he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance
- John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp
- (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
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- a bad reaction to the medicine
- his responses have slowed with age
- an idea evoked by some experience
- his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do
- (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