Reactor

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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