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What does reactive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word reactive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. that reacts or responds to a stimulus
  2. (chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions
  3. (electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
  4. Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.
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Often mydriasis occurs with the pupils poorly reactive or non-reactive to light.
One study thermally characterized the reactive hyperemic response of healthy skin.
Orthotopic ABC has a characteristic radiographic appearance due to reactive peripheral bone changes that induce a radiolucent shell.
The less emotionally reactive the couple becomes, the less the therapist structures the enactment.
And, what is more, this current of suppression is apparently not as reactive as it may appear.
Typical reactions of ketones are addition reactions although as a group they are less reactive than the aldehydes.

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