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reaction
Overview of noun reaction
The noun reaction has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (436) reaction -- (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")
2. (156) reaction, response -- (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age")
3. (137) chemical reaction, reaction -- ((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")
4. (102) reaction -- (an idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do")
5. (15) reaction -- (doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism")
6. (7) reaction -- (extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the forces of reaction carried the election")
7. (5) reaction -- ((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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reaction
7 senses of reaction
Sense 1
reaction
=> response
=> consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
reaction, response
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
reaction
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
reaction
=> resistance, opposition
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
reaction
=> conservatism, conservativism
=> political orientation, ideology, political theory
=> orientation
=> attitude, mental attitude
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
reaction
=> force
=> physical phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun reaction
3 of 7 senses of reaction
Sense 2
reaction, response
=> automatism
=> rebound
=> overreaction
=> galvanic skin response, GSR, psychogalvanic response, electrodermal response, electrical skin response, Fere phenomenon, Tarchanoff phenomenon
=> immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response
=> tropism
=> taxis
=> kinesis
=> double take
=> reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
=> learned reaction, learned response
=> passage, passing
=> answer
=> transfusion reaction
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
=> addition reaction
=> aldol reaction
=> chain reaction
=> chemical equilibrium, equilibrium
=> decomposition, decomposition reaction, chemical decomposition reaction
=> displacement, displacement reaction
=> double decomposition, double decomposition reaction, metathesis
=> elimination reaction
=> endothermic reaction
=> exothermic reaction
=> hydrolysis
=> neutralization, neutralisation, neutralization reaction, neutralisation reaction
=> oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation
=> oxidation-reduction, oxidoreduction, redox
=> photochemical reaction
=> reduction, reducing
=> saponification
Sense 5
reaction
=> backlash
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reaction
7 senses of reaction
Sense 1
reaction
=> response
Sense 2
reaction, response
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Sense 4
reaction
=> idea, thought
Sense 5
reaction
=> resistance, opposition
Sense 6
reaction
=> conservatism, conservativism
Sense 7
reaction
=> force
Antonyms of noun reaction
Member Holonyms of noun reaction
Substance Holonyms of noun reaction
Part Holonyms of noun reaction
Member Meronyms of noun reaction
Substance Meronyms of noun reaction
Part Meronyms of noun reaction
Meronyms of noun reaction
Holonyms of noun reaction
Attributes of noun reaction
Derived Forms of noun reaction
4 of 7 senses of reaction
Sense 1
reaction
RELATED TO>(verb) react#1
=> react, respond
Sense 2
reaction, response
RELATED TO>(verb) react#1
=> react, respond
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
RELATED TO>(verb) react#2
=> react
Sense 6
reaction
RELATED TO>(adj) reactionary#1
=> reactionary, reactionist, far-right
Domain of noun reaction
2 of 7 senses of reaction
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
TOPIC>(noun) chemistry#1, chemical science#1
Sense 7
reaction
TOPIC>(noun) mechanics#1
Domain Terms of noun reaction
Familiarity of noun reaction
reaction used as a noun is common (polysemy count =7)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun reaction
7 senses of reaction
Sense 1
reaction
> response
=> reaction
Sense 2
reaction, response
> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> control
=> breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
=> respiration
=> breath
=> consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
=> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
=> insemination
=> sleeping
=> reaction, response
=> crying, weeping, tears
=> ablactation
=> anastalsis
=> discharge, emission, expelling
=> expectoration
=> festering, suppuration, maturation
=> healing
=> hypostasis
=> lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering
=> lactation
=> opsonization, opsonisation
=> overactivity
=> peristalsis, vermiculation
=> perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis
=> phagocytosis
=> pinocytosis
=> placentation
=> psilosis
=> tanning
=> transpiration
Sense 3
chemical reaction, reaction
> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> acylation
=> agglutination, agglutinating activity
=> amylolysis
=> association
=> bluing, blueing
=> calcification
=> catalysis, contact action
=> chelation
=> chemical reaction, reaction
=> chlorination
=> cleavage
=> corrosion, corroding, erosion
=> cracking
=> deamination, deaminization
=> decalcification
=> decarboxylation
=> de-iodination
=> demineralization, demineralisation
=> desalination, desalinization, desalinisation
=> digestion
=> dissociation
=> gasification
=> gassing
=> hydrogenation
=> intumescence, intumescency, swelling
=> inversion
=> iodination
=> mechanism, chemical mechanism
=> nitrification
=> peptization, peptisation
=> photosynthesis
=> polymerization, polymerisation
=> precipitation
=> proteolysis
=> pyrochemical process, pyrochemistry
=> sequestration
=> syneresis, synaeresis
=> synthesis
=> transamination
=> transamination
=> zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment
Sense 4
reaction
> idea, thought
=> inspiration
=> cogitation
=> concept, conception, construct
=> preoccupation
=> misconception
=> plan, program, programme
=> figment
=> generalization, generalisation, generality
=> suggestion
=> impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion
=> reaction
=> theorem
=> notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey
=> meaning, substance
=> burden
=> theme, motif
=> ideal
=> idealization, idealisation
=> keynote
=> kink
Sense 5
reaction
> resistance, opposition
=> lockout
=> reaction
=> anti-takeover defense
Sense 6
reaction
> conservatism, conservativism
=> neoconservatism
=> reaction
Sense 7
reaction
> force
=> aerodynamic force
=> affinity, chemical attraction
=> attraction, attractive force
=> repulsion, repulsive force
=> centrifugal force
=> centripetal force
=> cohesion
=> Coriolis force
=> drift, impetus, impulsion
=> Lorentz force
=> moment
=> propulsion
=> pull
=> push, thrust
=> reaction
=> stress
=> torsion, torque
=> magnetomotive force
=> life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital
Meronyms of noun reaction
7 senses of reaction
Holonyms of noun reaction
Grep of noun reaction
abreaction
addition reaction
aldol reaction
allergic reaction
anamnestic reaction
anxiety reaction
catholic reaction force
chain reaction
chemical decomposition reaction
chemical reaction
conditional reaction
conditioned reaction
conversion reaction
decomposition reaction
defence reaction
defense reaction
displacement reaction
double decomposition reaction
double replacement reaction
elimination reaction
endoergic reaction
endothermic reaction
exoergic reaction
exothermic reaction
hypersensitivity reaction
immune reaction
insulin reaction
law of action and reaction
learned reaction
light reaction
molisch reaction
neutralisation reaction
neutralization reaction
nuclear fusion reaction
nuclear reaction
overreaction
photochemical reaction
physiological reaction
quellung reaction
reaction
reaction-propulsion engine
reaction engine
reaction formation
reaction propulsion
reaction time
reaction turbine
reactionary
reactionism
startle reaction
thermonuclear reaction
transfusion reaction
type i allergic reaction
type iv allergic reaction
wasserman reaction
Grep of adj reaction
reactionary
reactionist
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