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TOKAMAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tokamak mean?
• TOKAMAK (noun)
The noun TOKAMAK has 1 sense:
1. a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle
Familiarity information: TOKAMAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tokamak" is a kind of...):
chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)
Meronyms (parts of "tokamak"):
magnetic bottle (container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions)
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