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Recaption
- - The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them.
Reception
- noun - (American football) the act of catching a pass in football; "the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line"
- a formal party of people; as after a wedding
- quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
- the act of receiving
- the manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors"
Recoction
- - A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
Redaction
- noun - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
- the act of putting something in writing
Reduction
- noun - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the act of reducing complexity
Refaction
- - Recompense; atonement; retribution.
Refection
- noun - a light meal or repast
Reflation
- noun - inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state
Rejection
- noun - (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
- the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
- the speech act of rejecting
- the state of being rejected
Reliction
- - A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.