Word Meanings - REACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: REACTION

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. (more info) 1. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REACTION)

• Rebound
• Reaction
• ricochet
• reverberation
• recoil
• resilience

Related words: (words related to REACTION)

• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• RICOCHET
  A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing , the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges,
• RESILIENCE; RESILIENCY
  The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain. (more info) 1. The act of resiling, springing back,
• RECOILMENT
  Recoil.
• RECOIL
  fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity
• RECOILINGLY
  In the manner of a recoil.
• REACTION
  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
• REACTIONARY
  Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
• RECOILER
  One who, or that which, recoils.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• ABREACTION
  See BELOW
• WIDAL'S TEST; WIDAL TEST; WIDAL'S REACTION; WIDAL REACTION
  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.
• PREACTION
  Previous action.