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tər noun
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Electricity. a device whose primary purpose is to introduce reactance into a circuit.
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Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. a patient or animal that reacts positively towards a foreign material.
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Also called atomic pile, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, nuclear reactor, pile. Physics. an apparatus in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction can be initiated, sustained, and controlled, for generating heat or producing useful radiation.
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Chemistry. (especially in industry) a large container, as a vat, for processes in which the substances involved undergo a chemical reaction.
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| 1. | chem a substance, such as a reagent, that undergoes a reaction |
| 2. | short for nuclear reactor |
| 3. | a vessel, esp one in industrial use, in which a chemical reaction takes place |
| 4. | a coil of low resistance and high inductance that introduces reactance into a circuit |
| 5. | med a person sensitive to a particular drug or agent |
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Word Origin & History
reactor
"one that reacts," 1890 (see reaction). In nuclear sense, attested from 1945.
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Example sentences
Regulators approve nuclear reactor design they say is safe.
But building a fusion reactor that can convert that tremendous heat into useful energy has posed an immense challenge.
Winds can pick up radioactive material accidentally released from a nuclear reactor and scatter it around the world.
If you ram gases through a reactor, you're limit then becomes the amount of material you can turn into gas.
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