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Definitions: Reactor |
ReactorNoun1. An electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit. 2. (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reactor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | = nuclear reactor. (references) |
Energy | A device in which a controlled nuclear chainreaction can bemaintained, producing heat energy. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | An assembly in which the fission of a greater-than critical mass of a fissile material is regulated by a moderator. Controlling factor is the neutron flux, regulated by absorbing rods(boron-steel, cadmium). Used for neutron irradiation and for releasing nuclear energy. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MERLIN Reactor | English | Medium Energy Research Light-water-moderated Industrial Nuclear Reactor | N/A |
| RED | English | Reactor Equipment Division | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ReactorSynonym: nuclear reactor (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a minute to lock it down. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) So Merrin, I understand you're a reactor expert. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) Start the reactor, free mars (Total Recall; writing credit: Ronald Shusett) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reconstruction of the NRX Reactor 1970 (1973) Deadly Reactor (1989) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The small radioactive cobalt "pencils" are shipped back to the original nuclear reactor, where they can be recharged for further use. The shipment occurs in special hardened steel canisters that have been designed and tested to survive crashes without breaking. (references) | |
Is waste storage or transport a problem? Cobalt 60 is manufactured in a commercial nuclear reactor, by exposing non-radioactive cobalt to intense radiation in the reactor core. Cesium 137 is a by-product of the manufacture of weapons-grade radioactive substances. (references) | ||
Business | Eskom has recently announced the development of its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) Project. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Foreign journalists also were allowed to report on the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) light-water reactor groundbreaking at Kumho in 1997. Although more foreign journalists have been allowed into the country, the Government still maintains strict control over the movements of foreign visitors. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | Brazil's first commercial nuclear reactor, Angra I, located near Rio de Janeiro, has been in operation for more than 10 years. (references) |
Romania | The contract for the completion of the second unit of Cernavoda nuclear power plant (a 700 MW reactor based on Canadian Candu technology) has been signed. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | Depending on the source of financing, trade and investment projects receiving financing support range from the export of nuclear reactor control equipment to the establishment of a bakery, a yogurt factory, and an ice-cream distributorship. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization negotiated a separate protocol and service contracts for workers at the site of its light water reactor project. (references) |
Korea | KEDO, the international organization charged with implementation of a light-water reactor and other projects, has concluded a protocol and a related memorandum of understanding concerning wages and other working conditions for citizens who are to work on KEDO projects. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The environmentalists are not upset about Iran's nuclear reactor, so you never hear about it, just as you never hear about those built in the imprisoned half of the Korean peninsula by the NorKorComs. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Reactor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.33% of the time. "Reactor" is used about 746 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.33% | 741 | 9,171 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 746 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reactor": atomic reactor ♦ boiling water reactor ♦ breeder reactor ♦ burner reactor ♦ chain reactor ♦ chemical reactor ♦ demonstration reactor for nuclear fusion ♦ enriched reactor ♦ enriched uranium reactor ♦ epithermal reactor ♦ fast breeder reactor ♦ fast reactor ♦ fluidized bed reactor ♦ fluidized fuel reactor ♦ fluidized reactor ♦ fusion reactor ♦ high flux reactor ♦ light water reactor ♦ liquid fluidized bed reactor ♦ liquid metal reactor ♦ liquified fluidized bed reactor ♦ material testing reactor ♦ materials testing reactor ♦ natural uranium reactor ♦ nuclear reactor ♦ Organic Moderated Reactor ♦ plutonium fueled reactor ♦ plutonium reactor ♦ pressurized water reactor ♦ reactor coolant ♦ reactor core ♦ reactor excursion ♦ reactor rundown ♦ saturable reactor ♦ stirred reactor ♦ thermal reactor ♦ thermonuclear reactor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "reactor": reactor-grade. | |
Ending with "reactor": bio-reactor, fast-reactor, in-reactor, nuclear-reactor, test-reactor, turbo-reactor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reactor share | 292 |
juno reactor | 181 |
nuclear reactor | 171 |
reactor | 129 |
calcium reactor | 37 |
lancers reactor | 36 |
lancer reactor | 31 |
candu reactor | 25 |
line reactor | 23 |
breeder reactor | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reactor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | reaktor bërthamor (pile), reaktor. (various references) | |
Arabic | مفاعل نووي (nuclear reactor), مفاعل ذري (atomic pile, atomic reactor), مفاعل (reactive), الراكس, راد الفعل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | реактор, реактивна бобина, дросел (choke, gun, throttle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 反"器 (responder), 反應 . (various references) | |
Czech | reaktor. (various references) | |
Danish | reaktor (equipment for heat treatment by contact between a single cylinder and an endless belt, nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile), udstyr til varmebehandling ved kontakt mellem en enkelt valse og et transportbånd (equipment for heat treatment by contact between a single cylinder and an endless belt), drosselspole (chike coil, choke, choke coil, coil, impedance coil, reactance coil, self-induction coil, small choke). (various references) | |
Dutch | reactor (nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile), zelfinductiespoel (choke, coil, inductance, inductor, reactance coil, self-induction coil), smoorspoel (chike coil, choke, choke coil, coil, impedance coil, inductance, inductor, reactance coil, self-induction coil, small choke), kernreactor (nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile), impedantiespoel (choke, coil, reactance coil, self-induction coil). (various references) | |
Farsi | عامل واکنش , عامل عکس العمل , راکتور. (various references) | |
Finnish | reaktori (digester, nuclear power station, reaction chamber, soaker drum, soaking chamber, soaking drum), ydinreaktori (nuclear reactor, pile), sylinteriä ja kuljetinhihnaa käyttävä lämpökäsittelylaitteisto (equipment for heat treatment by contact between a single cylinder and an endless belt). (various references) | |
French | réacteur (nuclear reactor, reaction chamber, reaction engine, rection engine). (various references) | |
German | Reaktor (nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile), Drosselspule (chike coil, choke, coil, impedance coil, inductance, inductor, reactance coil, retard coil, self-induction coil, small choke). (various references) | |
Greek | αντιδραστήρας (jet engine, nuclear power station, reaction engine, rection engine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כור אטומי (nuclear reactor, pile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | reaktor, fojtótekercs (choking-coil). (various references) | |
Indonesian | reaktor. (various references) | |
Italian | reattore (blowtorch, clean, digester, digestion chamber, digestion tank, digestor, jet engine, methane digester, nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile, reaction engine, sludge digestion chamber, sludge digestion compartment, sludge digestion tank, sludge-digestion compartment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リーマン幾何学 (reactance, reaction, real, realism, realist, realistic, reality, realtime, real-time system, rear, rear drive, rear engine, rear seat, rear window, reel, Rias, Riemannian geometry). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リアクター . (various references) | |
Korean | 반응기. (various references) | |
Manx | frasseeagh (reactive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eactorray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reator (ballast), reactor nuclear (nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile), reactor (nozzle, nuclear reactor, pile), maquinaria para tratamento térmico por contacto entre cilindro único e tapete sem-fim (equipment for heat treatment by contact between a single cylinder and an endless belt), bobina de reactância (choke, coil, impedance coil, reactance coil, self-induction coil). (various references) | |
Romanian | reactor. (various references) | |
Russian | реактор. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reaktor. (various references) | |
Spanish | reactor (equipment for heat treatment by contact between a single cylinder and an endless belt, nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile). (various references) | |
Swedish | reaktor (digester, nuclear power station, nuclear reactor, pile, reaction chamber, soaker drum, soaking chamber, soaking drum). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องปฏิกร"์นิวเคลียร์, คนหรือสิ่งที่แส"งการตอบสนอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | reaktör, tepki bobini. (various references) | |
Ukranian | стабілізатор (stabilizer), реактор. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lò phản ứng. (various references) | |
Welsh | adweithydd (reagent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reactor": reactors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reactor": bioreactor, hyperreactor, nonreactor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reactor": bioreactors, hyperreactors, nonreactors. (additional references) | |
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"Reactor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erator, Kreuztor, prefactor, ractor, raetor, Realcote, reator, recator, ricter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reactor" (pronounced rēa"kter) |
| 4 | -a" k t er | actor, compactor, detractor, factor, refractor, tractor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, collector, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, contractor, defector, detector, director, doctor, erector, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, malefactor, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, rector, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, vector, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: creator. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carrot, carter, coater, crater, rector, tracer, trocar. | |
-2 letters: actor, carer, caret, carte, cater, corer, crate, crore, oater, ocrea, orate, racer, rater, react, recta, recto, retro, taroc, tarre, terra, trace. | |
-3 letters: acre, aero, arco, care, carr, cart, cate, cero, coat, core, cote, orca, orra, race, rare, rate, rato, rear, roar, rota, rote, tace, taco, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, torc, tore, torr. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cor, cot, ear, eat, era, err, eta, oar, oat, oca, ora, orc, ore, ort, rat, rec, ret, roc, roe, rot, tae, tao, tar, tea, toe, tor. | |
-5 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, oe, or, re, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: cavorter, creators, cremator, reactors, redactor, retroact. | |
+2 letters: carrotier, cartopper, cavorters, cocreator, copartner, corporate, correlate, corrugate, costarred, cremators, crematory, decorator, detractor, execrator, extractor, macerator, oratrices, orchestra, overreact, precatory, procreant, procreate, raconteur, rectorate, rectorial, redactors, refractor, retractor, retroacts, retropack, trochlear. | |
+3 letters: baroceptor, barometric, bioreactor, carburetor, carrotiest, cartoppers, celebrator, certiorari, charioteer, clearstory, cocreators, contraries, cooperator, copartners, correlated, correlates, correlator, corrugated, corrugates, cotransfer, crematoria, decorators, desecrator, detractors, eradicator, execrators, extractors, forecaster, hovercraft, macerators, meritocrat, nonreactor, orchestral, orchestras, overreacts, percolator, procaryote, procreated, procreates, procreator, protracted, raconteurs, recreation, rectorates, redecorate, refraction, refractors, refractory, replicator, retraction, retractors, retroacted, retropacks, rhetorical, tetrachord, tracheolar, trajectory, trochanter, trochlears, watercolor. | |
+4 letters: accelerator, acrocentric, appreciator, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, arthroscope, astrometric, baroceptors, bioreactors, broadcaster, calorimeter, calorimetry, carburetion, carburetors, carburettor, catercorner, celebrators, celebratory, centerboard, cerebration, certioraris, charioteers, chiropteran, choirmaster, cogenerator, congregator, consecrator, conservator, contracture, contrariety, contravener, cooperators, copartnered, corporately, corporative, correctable, correlating, correlation, correlative, correlators, corroborate, cotransfers, counterpart, counterraid, craniometry, crapshooter, crematories, crematorium, cryotherapy, cryptomeria, decelerator, declaratory, deprecatory, depreciator, desecrators, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, doctrinaire, electrogram, eradicators, forecasters, gerontocrat, hovercrafts, imprecatory, incinerator, incorporate, mercuration, meritocracy, meritocrats, nonreactors, orchestrate, ostracoderm, overreacted, perchlorate, percolators, predicatory, predoctoral, preromantic, procaryotes, procreating, procreation, procreative, procreators, procrustean, protectoral, prothoraces, protractile, protractive, provocateur, radiometric, radiotracer, rarefaction, reactionary, rebroadcast, reciprocate, recordation, recreations, redecorated, redecorates, redecorator, refractions, replicators, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, retroactive, rhetorician, spectrogram, tetrachords, tetrasporic, torchbearer, treacherous, triceratops, trochanters, urochordate, vociferator, watercolors, watercooler, watercourse. | |
+5 letters: accelerators, accretionary, acrocentrics, amperometric, androcentric, appreciators, appreciatory, archenterons, arthroscopes, baroreceptor, broadcasters, calorimeters, calorimetric, carbohydrate, carburetions, carburettors, carrottopped, cartographer, centerboards, cerebrations, chiropterans, choirmasters, clearstories, cogenerators, commemorator, concentrator, congregators, consecrators, consecratory, conservators, conservatory, contemporary, contractures, contrariness, contrariwise, contraveners, copartnering, cornstarches, corporeality, correctional, correlatable, correlations, correlatives, corroborated, corroborates, counterargue, countermarch, counterparts, counterraids, counterrally, countertrade, craftsperson, crapshooters, creaturehood, crematoriums, cryptomerias, decelerators, decorticator, democratizer, depreciators, depreciatory, dipterocarps, directorates, doctrinaires, electrograms, galactorrhea, gerontocracy, gerontocrats, heterocercal, hyperreactor, incinerators, incorporated, incorporates, intercompare, macropterous, mercurations, meritocratic, noncharacter, noncorporate, orchestrally, orchestrated, orchestrater, orchestrates, orchestrator, ostracoderms, overabstract, overcritical, overdecorate, overdramatic, overreacting, overreaction, perchlorates, petrographic, polarimetric, postfracture, practitioner, precentorial, preceptorial, precipitator, prevaricator, procathedral, procreations, protectorate, protuberance, provocateurs, radiotracers, rarefactions, rebroadcasts, reciprocated, reciprocates, reciprocator, reconsecrate, recordations, recreational, recuperation, redecorating, redecoration, redecorators, refractories, refractorily, remonstrance, renunciatory, resuscitator, retroactions, rhetorically, rhetoricians, secretionary, shortchanger, spectrograms, spectrograph, sportscaster, torchbearers, trajectories, trichopteran, trochanteral, trochanteric, tubocurarine, turbocharged, turbocharger, uncorrelated, unrhetorical, urochordates, velociraptor, vociferators, watercoolers, watercourses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716769868184 |
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