Retroact vs React - What's the difference?
retroact | react |
To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
(Webster 1913)
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
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.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
As verbs the difference between retroact and react
is that retroact is to act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective while react is .retroact
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