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reaction meaning

EN[ɹiˈækʃən] [-ækʃən]
US
WReaction
  • Reaction may refer to: Response to another event
  • Adverse drug reaction
  • Chemical reaction
  • Chain reaction (disambiguation)
  • Emotional reaction
  • Light reaction (disambiguation)
  • Nuclear reaction
  • TNA Reaction, a documentary show of TNA behind scenes.
  • Reaction (physics), as defined by Newton's third law
  • Reactionary, a political tendency
  • Reflex reaction
  • other uses
  • Reaction Records, a record label
  • ReAction GUI a GUI toolkit used on AmigaOS
  • "Reaction" (album), a 1986 album by American R&B singer Rebbie Jackson
  • "Reaction" (song), the title song from the Rebbie Jackson album
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    Definition of reaction in English Dictionary

  • NounPLreactionsPREré-SUF-tion
    1. An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
      1. The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction.
      2. You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction?
      3. When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic reaction.
    2. (chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition.
      1. In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • "In the" coalesced into "ith", which modern reaction has orthographized to "i' th". — Earle.
      • Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, the capacity of raffinose and stachyose to act as fructosyl donors in transfructosylation reactions catalyzed by the levansucrase of B.
      • The superessentiality index of a reaction was defined as a ‘fraction of networks in which the reaction is essential’.
    2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
      • The eighth step in the pathway is conversion of boschnaloside to 8-epideoxy loganic acid which involves hydroxylation/oxidation reaction.
      • One μg of total RNA was retrotranscribed to cDNA using Superscript II RNase H - (Invitrogen), following the manufacturer’s instructions, with random hexamers to prime the elongation reaction.
      • Since this, the proposed classification to separate the genus homofermentative Lactobacillus and Brochothrix from the catalase test may result an overlap in the case of positive reaction.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Suffixes
        • Words by suffix
          • Words suffixed with -tion
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
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      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of reaction for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "reaction" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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