Definition of Reactively

1. Adverb. In a reactive fashion ¹

2. Adverb. (chemistry) In relation to or by means of a reaction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reactively

1. actively [adv] - See also: actively

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reactively

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reactive hyperaemia
reactive inhibition
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reactive mind
reactive oxygen species
reactive perforating collagenosis
reactive power
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Literary usage of Reactively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1904)
"... of the "Oxford English Dictionary," which has been prepared by WA Craigie, includes upwards of 3000 words recorded between "reactively" and "ree. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The intelligence, slowly educated by an expenditure of effort on the part of the child, is, reactively, constantly increasing the perceptive power, ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"A number of high-mass positive ions are found to be reactively formed by successive additions of ..."

4. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. by JAH Murray. M-MANDRAGON (Vol. VI). Reactively-REK by WA Craigie (Vol. VIII). Oxford, At the Clarendon Press. ..."

5. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"This interpenetration effectively consolidated the dominance of MEC and further marginalized the tariff— which was deployed increasingly reactively and ..."

6. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"This interpénétration effectively consolidated the dominance of MEC and further marginalized the tariff—- which was deployed increasingly reactively and ..."

7. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"This interpénétration effectively consolidated the dominance of MEC and further marginalized the tariff— which was deployed increasingly reactively and ..."

8. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"This interpenetration effectively consolidated the dominance of MEC and further marginalized the tariff— which was deployed increasingly reactively and ..."

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