thermonuclear reactor

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   a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy

   Synonymsfusion reactor

   Broadernuclear reactor

Questions about thermonuclear reactor

What does thermonuclear reactor mean?

thermonuclear reactor means "a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy".

What is another word for thermonuclear reactor?

Close synonyms include fusion 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 thermonuclear reactor a common word?

thermonuclear 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.