nuclear reactor

Questions about nuclear reactor

What does nuclear reactor mean?

nuclear reactor means "(physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements".

What is another word for nuclear reactor?

Close synonyms include reactor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear reactor a common word?

nuclear reactor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.