chain reactor

Questions about chain reactor

What is another word for chain reactor?

It depends which chain reactor you mean. In the sense “a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy”, the synonyms are atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chain reactor?

WordNet records no antonym for chain reactor. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chain reactor come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for chain reactorAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chain reactorWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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