English-Finnish translations for reaction

• reaktio
  Tämä ei ole mikään refleksinomainen reaktio. This is not a knee-jerk reaction.
  Ja miltä tämä reaktio näyttää? And what form has this reaction taken?
  Ainakin se on jonkinlainen reaktio. At least that is some form of reaction.
• vastavaikutus
• kemiallinen reaktio
• taantumus
  Se oli suuri uskon sota ja samaan aikaan luokkasota, vallankumous vastaan taantumus. It was a religious war, but at the same time a class war, a revolution faced with a reaction.
• vaste

Definition of reaction

• An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event
• A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition
• Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant

Examples

• The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction.
• You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction?
• When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic reaction.
• In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.

Related words

• reactionary
• abreaction
• half-reaction
• overreaction
• photoreaction
• cutireaction
• counterreaction
• reactionism
• neoreactionary