Jayne reaction

The instinctive and unexplainable urge to throw yourself into your friends fights. Inspired by the oh so awesome Jayne Cobb, of Joss Whedon's Firefly.

He hit me, I hit him, and then there was a Jayne reaction and all the Browncoats started punching.

by TashaElizabeth September 14, 2008

Explosive reactive armour

Initially designed to strengthen tanks, a reactive armour, that explodes when hit by either kinetic energy or high explosive antitank (HEAT) projectiles, disrupting the round, and degrading its penetration. Explosive reactive armour is most effective against HEAT rounds.

The new Russian Kontakt-5 ERA is not completely destroyed when hit - it still functions as armour after exploding.

Anti-tank weapons work by piercing the armour and exploding inside, thus killing the crew.

Explosive reactive armour counteracts the force of the explosion by creating another explosion on itself. Against shaped charged missiles, this type of armour really comes into it's own.

The design was patented by Manfred Held in the 1970's.

ERA will save the lives of the crew and allow the tank to fight another day.

by Gumba Gumba April 13, 2004

American Over-Reaction

When Americans over-react.

See: Bay of Pigs. This would be a excellent example of an American Over-Reaction: here are 4 more: driving and realizing that the left lane isn't the lane to be in, parent's reaction when you come home too late, neighbor's reaction to loud parties, cops reaction to someone smoking weed

by monkey-snake December 16, 2008

gut reaction

A primitive response to external stimuli, occurring before reason has a chance to modulate one's behavior.

"Screw you, sinners!"

- Baby Jesus' gut reaction when Mother Mary explained about God's crucifixion plan.

by GreatBigBore March 5, 2010

pee jerk reaction

when in the middle of urinating a man has a myoclinic type jerk causing a emergency clean up

i was at thanksgiving at my girlfriends and had a pee jerk reaction took me 5 mins to clean up

by smokey chantrel January 15, 2010

Seminal Reaction

The explosive reaction from over stimulation of common activities

This Digiorno pizza was so good I had a seminal reaction in my pants.

by NeoRage211 September 9, 2010

Reaction

A force is a push or a pull that acts upon an object as a results of its interaction with another object. Forces result from interactions! As discussed in Lesson 2, some forces result from contact interactions (normal, frictional, tensional, and applied forces are examples of contact forces) and other forces are the result of action-at-a-distance interactions (gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces). According to Newton, whenever objects A and B interact with each other, they exert forces upon each other. When you sit in your chair, your body exerts a downward force on the chair and the chair exerts an upward force on your body. There are two forces resulting from this interaction - a force on the chair and a force on your body. These two forces are called action and reaction forces and are the subject of Newton's third law of motion. Formally stated, Newton's third law is

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Can't say I didn't see this coming 😛

by ... Zjdbckdnznsjd September 23, 2019