reactor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=ac=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

reactor, n. 

•  A choking coil.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A nuclear reactor.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reactor, n.
1 a person or thing that reacts.
2 (in full nuclear reactor) an apparatus or structure in which a controlled nuclear chain reaction releases energy.
3 Electr. a component used to provide reactance, esp. an inductor.
4 an apparatus for the chemical reaction of substances.
5 Med. a person who has a reaction to a drug etc.

THESAURUS

reactor

atomic pile, breeder reactor, bricks, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, fast pile, furnace, heterogeneous reactor, homogeneous reactor, intermediate pile, lattice, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, pile, plutonium reactor, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, radioactive waste, reactor pile, rods, slow pile, stellarator, uranium reactor