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reaction
reaction
n 1: 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"
2: a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some
foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the
medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" [syn: {response}]
3: (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" [syn: {chemical reaction}]
4: an idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news
was to start planning what to do"
5: doing something in opposition to another way of doing it
that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction
against cubism"
6: extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the
forces of reaction carried the election"
7: (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"


redaction
redaction
n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill)
into acceptable form [syn: {editing}]
2: the act of putting something in writing


resection
resection
n : surgical removal of part of a structure or organ


sanction
sanction
n 1: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the
union's endorsement" [syn: {countenance}, {endorsement},
{indorsement}, {warrant}, {imprimatur}]
2: a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's
standards
3: official permission or approval; "authority for the program
was renewed several times" [syn: {authority}, {authorization},
{authorisation}]
4: the act of final authorization; "it had the sanction of the
church"
v 1: give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
[syn: {approve}, {O.K.}, {okay}] [ant: {disapprove}]
2: give authority or permission to
3: give religious sanction to, such as through on oath;
"sanctify the marriage"


unsanctioned
unsanctioned
adj : without explicit official permission; "unsanctioned use of
company cars"

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