MAGNETIC BOTTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetic bottle mean? 

• MAGNETIC BOTTLE (noun)
  The noun MAGNETIC BOTTLE has 1 sense:

1. container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions

  Familiarity information: MAGNETIC BOTTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETIC BOTTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("magnetic bottle" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Holonyms ("magnetic bottle" is a part of...):

tokamak (a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle)