tokamak

1. 1.

   a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle

   Broaderchamber

   Partsmagnetic bottle

Other forms of tokamak

plural

tokamaks·

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 tokamak

What does tokamak mean?

tokamak means "a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle".

How many syllables are in tokamak?

tokamak has 3 syllables: to-ka-mak. The stress falls on "to".

Is tokamak a common word?

tokamak 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.