Dictionary Definition
reactor
Noun
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A person who behaves in response to a suggestion, stimulation or some other influence.
- A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
- A chemical substance which responds to the presence or contact with another substance.
Translations
a person who behaves in response to a
suggestion, stimulation or some other influence
a device which uses atomic energy to produce
heat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (PRC) (fǎnyìngduī); (Taiwan) (fǎnyìnglú)
- Dutch: reactor
- Finnish: reaktori
- French: réacteur
- Interlingua: reactor
- Polish: reaktor
- Swedish: reaktor
a chemical substance which responds to the
presence or contact with another substance
- ttbc Indonesian: reaktor
- ttbc Portuguese (br): reativo , reativa (1); reator (2); reagente
- ttbc Portuguese (pt): reactivo , reactiva (1); recator (2); reagente
- ttbc Spanish: reactor
- ttbc Thai:
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Reactor may relate to the following:
- Chemical reactor: a device for containing and controlling a chemical reaction
- Nuclear reactor: a device for containing and controlling a nuclear reaction
- An inductor (possessing reactance) in an electrical power grid
- Reactor pattern: a design pattern used in concurrent programming
- Reactor (arcade game), an arcade game created by Gottlieb
- Reactor, Inc. (company), a defunct interactive entertainment company (see Mike_Saenz)
- Reactor (Havok), a product by from Havok software
- Re-ac-tor, a 1981 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
reactor in Czech: Reaktor
reactor in German: Reaktor
reactor in Spanish: Reactor
reactor in French: Réacteur
reactor in Dutch: Reactor
reactor in Russian: Реактор
reactor in Finnish: Reaktori
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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