React and Backlash

verb

• Show a response or a reaction to something.
  • synonyms: respond
• Act against or in opposition to.
  • usage: "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
  • synonyms: oppose
• Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

• (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
• (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
• (v.i.) 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.

(Military) REACT stands for rapid execution and combat targeting

noun

• A movement back from an impact.
  • synonyms: recoil, repercussion, rebound
• An adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence.
  • usage: "there was a backlash of intolerance"

verb

• Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.
  • usage: "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
  • synonyms: backfire, recoil

(n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.