reactor

4 definitions found

reactor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Reactor \Re*act"or\, n.
     1. (Elec.) A choking coil.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A nuclear reactor.
        [PJC]

  Choking coil \Choking coil\ (Elec.)
     A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an
     alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the
     current, or to change its phase; -- called also reactance coil
      or reactor, these terms being now preferred in
     engineering usage.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Choky

reactor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  reactor
      n 1: an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a
           circuit
      2: (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and
         control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or
         artificial elements [syn: nuclear reactor, reactor]

reactor - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "reactor":
     atomic pile, breeder reactor, bricks, chain reactor,
     chain-reacting pile, fast pile, furnace, heterogeneous reactor,
     homogeneous reactor, intermediate pile, lattice, neutron factory,
     nuclear furnace, pile, plutonium reactor, power reactor,
     power-breeder reactor, radioactive waste, reactor pile, rods,
     slow pile, stellarator, uranium reactor