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Reactor

//ɹiˈæktɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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
    (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements wordnet
  3. 3
    A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
  4. 4
    an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit wordnet
  5. 5
    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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  1. 6
    A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.
  2. 7
    An electrical component with reactance

Etymology

From react + -or.

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