plutonium trigger

Questions about plutonium trigger

What is another word for plutonium trigger?

It depends which plutonium trigger you mean. In the sense “a steel or beryllium sphere containing plutonium 239 that triggers nuclear fission when compressed by explosives”, the synonyms are plutonium pit. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 plutonium trigger?

WordNet records no antonym for plutonium trigger. 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 plutonium trigger 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 plutonium triggerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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