thermonuclear reaction

1. 1.

   a nuclear fusion reaction taking place at very high temperatures (as in the sun)

   Broaderfusion

   Narrowercarbon cycle

Questions about thermonuclear reaction

What does thermonuclear reaction mean?

thermonuclear reaction means "a nuclear fusion reaction taking place at very high temperatures (as in the sun)".

Is thermonuclear reaction a common word?

thermonuclear reaction 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.