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noun

Reactor n.

(Elec.) A choking coil.

A nuclear reactor.

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Etymology of 'Reactor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reactor" Quotes from Famous Books

... The boy seemed offended, as though somebody were explaining that his mother hadn't really found him out in the rose garden. "But they talked about it to some of their friends, and it seems that other mediums are saying the same thing. Father, do you remember when the Haval Valley reactor blew up? All over Odin, the mediums had been talking about a terrible accident, for a ...

— Ministry of Disturbance • Henry Beam Piper

... land and peat deposits Land use: arable land NA%; permanent crops NA%; meadows and pastures NA%; forest and woodland NA%; other NA%; includes irrigated NA% Environment: southern part of Belarus highly contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl' ...

— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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