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What does react mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
  2. (physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
  3. (chemistry) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
  4. (chemistry) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
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And he accused the watchdog of being slow to react and of holding back essential research.
Second, the system will not work for materials that are strongly adsorbed by, or react with, the system components.
After hydrogenation, each of the four new amines on the ends of the molecule can react with acrylonitrile, resulting in eight new ends.
In fact it brings new pressures to react even more quickly to quotations and queries.
Reckless scientists have created a swarm of flying quadrotors that react to human gestures and movements.
How he will react to the grind of a full NHL season, however, is a question mark.

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