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Noun
S: (n) chemical reaction, reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others) "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
S: (n) reaction (an idea evoked by some experience) "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do"
S: (n) reaction, response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent) "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age"
S: (n) reaction ((mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body) "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"
S: (n) reaction (a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude) "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"
S: (n) consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon) "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
S: (n) offspring, materialization, materialisation (something that comes into existence as a result) "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
S: (n) aftereffect (any result that follows its cause after an interval)
S: (n) aftermath, wake, backwash (the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)) "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
S: (n) bandwagon effect (the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity) "in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity"; "polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate"
S: (n) brisance (the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion)
S: (n) butterfly effect (the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago)
S: (n) change (the result of alteration or modification) "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"
S: (n) coattails effect ((politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party) "he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election"
S: (n) Coriolis effect ((physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere)
S: (n) dent (an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)) "it made a dent in my bank account"
S: (n) domino effect (the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall))
S: (n) harvest (the consequence of an effort or activity) "they gathered a harvest of examples"; "a harvest of love"
S: (n) impact, wallop (a forceful consequence; a strong effect) "the book had an important impact on my thinking"; "the book packs a wallop"
S: (n) influence (the effect of one thing (or person) on another) "the influence of mechanical action"
S: (n) product (a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances) "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue"
S: (n) placebo effect (any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs)
S: (n) position effect ((genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome)
S: (n) repercussion, reverberation (a remote or indirect consequence of some action) "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
S: (n) response (a result) "this situation developed in response to events in Africa"
S: (n) side effect, fallout (any adverse and unwanted secondary effect) "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
S: (n) spillover ((economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure)