React

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækt

Full definition of react

Verb

1. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome
2. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
3. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Derived terms

• reactive
• reactor

Related terms

• interreact, interreaction

Anagrams

• caret, cater, crate, recta, trace