Meanings
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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.
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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.
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3
noun
(physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
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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
Etymology
From react + -or.