US /ɹiˈæktɚ/ UK /ɹiːˈæktə/
noun Freq #8995

Meanings

  1. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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