Vocabulary : Reach to Reaction

Reach : To retch. ;; An effort to vomit. ;; To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. ;; Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. ;; To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. ;; To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. ;; Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. ;; To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. ;; To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. ;; To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. ;; To understand; to comprehend. ;; To overreach; to deceive. ;; To stretch out the
Reachable : Being within reach.
Reached : of Reach
Reacher : One who reaches. ;; An exaggeration.
Reaching : of Reach

Reachless : Being beyond reach; lofty.
React : To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome. ;; To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. ;; To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
Reactance : The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.
Reactance coil : A choking coil.
Reaction : A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves. ;; A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility. ;; Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action. ;; The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame. ;; An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock. ;; The force which a body subjected to the action of a for