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adjective
Reactive  adj.  Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reactive" Quotes from Famous Books



... two loops of wire, or better, two coils of wire, are placed close together the electromagnetic induction between them is reactive, that is, when a current is made to flow through one of the coils closed magnetic lines of force are set up and when these cut the other loop or turns of wire of the other coil, they in turn produce electric currents ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins

... whispers and sobs, restlessly pacing up and down, lying on the hard floor, courting cold and weariness, she told to the pitiful listening night the anguish which she could pour into no mortal ear. But always sleep came at last, and always in the morning the reactive calm that enabled her to live ...
— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot



Words linked to "Reactive" :   labile, unreactive, activated, thermolabile, reactivity, oxidizable, natural philosophy, physics, chemical science, unstable, chemistry, reactive schizophrenia, sensitive



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