exothermic reaction

1. 1.

   a chemical reaction accompanied by the evolution of heat

   Broaderchemical reaction

Questions about exothermic reaction

What does exothermic reaction mean?

exothermic reaction means "a chemical reaction accompanied by the evolution of heat".

Is exothermic reaction a common word?

exothermic reaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.