单词 | reacting |
释义 | reactingn. The action or process of react v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this, a reaction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] > return action or operation repercussion1603 reacting1611 recussion1754 reaction1771 reagency1793 reverberation1797 retroaction1799 response1887 snap-back1972 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Reattióne A reacting, or reaction. 1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. A. Colmenero de Ledesma Treat. Chocolate in P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 60 The acting and re~acting which they have one upon another. 1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. iv. 162 The actings and reactings that take place between man and man. 1895 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 9 176 By the reacting of the same cause, the price of cattle remained stationary. 1939 Sci. Monthly Feb. 171/1 The reacting of an organism as a whole (as distinguished from the reacting of parts of the organism). 1998 Sunday News (Auckland) (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Sports section) 52 Hart's actions this season were reactive rather than proactive. And even his reacting has been too slow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reactingadj. That reacts or causes a reaction (in various senses); (now esp.) that undergoes a chemical reaction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [adjective] > operating or acting in return responsive1657 reacting1666 responding1670 reactive1717 respondent1726 retroactive1799 reactional1839 1666 Duchess of Newcastle Observ. Exper. Philos. 49 According to his principles there must..be some reaction, or a reacting and resisting motion. 1745 C. Colden Explic. First Causes Action 8 A kind of reacting force. 1779 A. Young Polit. Arithm.: Pt. II 53 The weight of those taxes [must] be felt proportionably to the want of that reacting circulation. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 5 A kind of reacting sympathy. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 245 Some modification in the reacting tissue. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students x. 201 The greater the chemical affinity between the reacting substances, the greater the heat liberated in the reaction. 1962 Rep. Progress Physics 25 322 The reacting gas which has been shock heated is heated still further by the shock front reflected from the end of the tube. 1995 Chem. in Brit. Oct. 809/1 There are rigorous group theoretical arguments that dictate the allowed molecular symmetries of a reacting system along the reaction path. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611adj.1666 |
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