reactor

1. 1.

   an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit

   Broaderelectrical device

   Narrowercoil
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsnuclear reactor

   Broaderapparatus

   Narroweratomic pilebreeder reactorfast reactorgas-cooled reactorliquid metal reactorthermal reactorthermonuclear reactorwater-cooled reactor

   Partscontrol rodcoremoderator

   physics

Other forms of reactor

plural

reactors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reactor

What does reactor mean?

reactor means "an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reactor?

reactor has 3 syllables: re-ac-tor. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ɹiˈæktɚ/.

What is another word for reactor?

Close synonyms include nuclear 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 reactor a common word?

reactor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reactor?

1 word rhymes with reactor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.