Reaction may refer to: Response to another event
- Adverse drug reaction
- Chemical reaction
- Emotional reaction
- Light reaction
- 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 (software), a Perl application framework
- "Reaction" (song), a 1986 song by American R&B singer Rebbie Jackson
- "Reaction", a 2008 single by Dead Letter Circus
Famous quotes containing the word reaction:
“In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Children, randomly at first, hit upon something sooner or later that is their mother’s and/or father’s Achilles’ heel, a kind of behavior that especially upsets, offends, irritates or embarrasses them. One parent dislikes name-calling, another teasing...another bathroom jokes. For the parents, this behavior my have ties back to their childhood, many have been something not allowed, forbidden, and when it appears in the child, it causes high-voltage reaction in the parent.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)
“In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)