reactor coil
1Reactor — Re*act or, n. 1. (Elec.) A choking coil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. A {nuclear reactor}. [PJC] …
2reactor — [rē ak′tər] n. 1. a person or thing that reacts or undergoes a reaction 2. NUCLEAR REACTOR 3. Elec. a device, as a coil or capacitor, inserted in a circuit to introduce reactance 4. Med. a person or animal having a positive reaction to a… …
3reactor — Choking coil Choking coil (Elec.) A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; called also {reactance coil} or {reactor}, these terms being now… …
4reactor — noun 1》 (also nuclear reactor) an apparatus or structure in which fissile material can be made to undergo a controlled, self sustaining nuclear reaction with the consequent release of energy. 2》 a container or apparatus in which substances are… …
5reactor — reaktorius statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. reactance coil; reactor vok. Drossel, f; Drosselspule, f; induktiver Widerstand, m; Reaktor, m rus. реактор, m pranc. bobine d induction, f; inductance, f; pile, f; réactance, f; réacteur …
6reactor — noun Date: 1890 1. one that reacts 2. a device (as a coil, winding, or conductor of small resistance) used to introduce reactance into an alternating current circuit 3. a. a vat for an industrial chemical reaction b. a device for the controlled… …
7saturable reactor — noun also saturable core reactor : an AC reactor coil of variable but limited impedance because of magnetic core saturation by means of an auxiliary DC excitation coil abbr. SR * * * saturable reactor, = magnetic amplifier. (Cf. ↑magnetic… …
8Batch reactor — The Batch reactor is the generic term for a type of vessel widely used in the process industries. Its name is something of a misnomer since vessels of this type are used for a variety of process operations such as solids dissolution, product… …
9Gaseous fission reactor — A gas nuclear reactor (or gas fueled reactor ) limits the only temperature limiting materials in a reactor to the reactor walls. A limitation for conventional nuclear fission reactors is that if the nuclear fuel temperature were to rise too high… …
10International Reactor Innovative and Secure — (IRIS) is a Generation IV reactor reactor design made by an international team of companies, laboratories, and universities and coordinated by Westinghouse. IRIS is hoped to open up new markets for nuclear power and make a bridge from Generation… …
