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Definition of Reaction

Reaction A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves. A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility. 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. Related Definitions: Action, Activity, Affected, After, Agglutinate, An, And, Another, Any, As, Bacilli, Backward, Based, Blood, Blowpipe, Body, Bouillon, By, Change, Characteristic, Chemical, Consequent, Contrary, Counter, Culture, Depression, Direction, Distinctive, Each, Electricity, Energy, Exhaustion, Fact, Fever, Flame, For, Force, Form, From, Great, Heat, Heightened, In, Induced, Latter, Lose, Light, Manifestation, More, Motility, Movement, Mutual, New, Of, On, One, Opposite, Or, Other, Overaction, Overexertion, Production, Progress, Reaction, Reciprocal, Reform, Regular, Resistance, Resisting, Response, Resulting, Reverse, Revolution, See, Serum, Shock, Some, Stimulation, Subjected, Succeeding, Such, Tendency, Test, That, The, Their, These, To, Typhoid, Under, Upon, Vital, Which, With

Reaction Quotations Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton Every chemical reaction has a transition state. Derek Harold Richard Barton Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato

Reaction Translations reaction in Dutch is reactie reaction in Finnish is vastavaikutus reaction in German is Gegenwirkung, Reaktion, Reaktion reaction in Italian is reazione reaction in Swedish is reaktion

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