reactor

B1 Topic:People & Society

US /ɹiˈæktɚ/ UK /ɹiːˈæktə/ See IPA manual

Freq #8995

Meanings

1

noun
A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.

Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment. They do not seem to exist with lives or qualities of their own.
2

noun
A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.

It limits the rights of nonweapon countries to develop an export business in civilian reactor technology.
3

noun
(physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
4

noun
an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who responds to a... reacter

2 noun · a device which uses atomic... atomic reactornuclear reactor

3 noun · (physics) any of several... nuclear reactor

Word family

Derived forms angioreactorattoreactorgeoreactormicroreactorminireactornanoreactornonreactorphotoreactorseroreactorsonoreactorvaractor

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Phrases (1)

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breeder reactor
a nuclear reactor designed to make more usable nuclear fuel than it consumes

Noun + noun

Etymology

From react + -or.

Topics

People & Society

External links

# reactor

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ɹiˈæktɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ɹiːˈæktə/
**Frequency rank:** 8995

## Meanings
1. A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.
2. A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
3. (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
4. an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit

## Examples
- Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment. They do not seem to exist with lives or qualities of their own.
- It limits the rights of nonweapon countries to develop an export business in civilian reactor technology.

## Derived Forms
- angioreactor
- attoreactor
- georeactor
- microreactor
- minireactor
- nanoreactor
- nonreactor
- photoreactor
- seroreactor
- sonoreactor
- varactor

## Etymology
From react + -or.

## Topics
- People & Society

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