Definitions for reactor

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reactor re·ac·tor

Spelling: [ree-ak-ter]

IPA: /riˈæk tər/

Reactor is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in reactor (aceorrt).

Definitions for reactor

noun

1. a person or thing that reacts or undergoes reaction.
2. Electricity. a device whose primary purpose is to introduce reactance into a circuit.
3. Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. a patient or animal that reacts positively towards a foreign material.
4. 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.
5. Chemistry. (especially in industry) a large container, as a vat, for processes in which the substances involved undergo a chemical reaction.

Origin of reactor

1885-90; 1940-45 for def 4; react + -or²

Examples for reactor

This will give you a constant temperature inside the reactor.

The head had vanished back into the control room of reactor Two.

The reactor has the potential to produce weapons grade plutonium.

Obviously, the reactor was the only part not vaporized in the fall—because of its construction.

In 1981, while the world condemned us, we sent our air force to destroy the Osirak reactor Saddam Hussein was building in Iraq.

Iran is suspected to have aided in the funding of that reactor.

Father, do you remember when the Haval Valley reactor blew up?

The reactor has the potential to produce weapon grade plutonium.

It prohibits the manufacture of new centrifuges and work on the Arak reactor.

There were five other men in the reactor station, and—so far—he had seen no one.