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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 bottleplay

  Familiarity information: TOKAMAK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOKAMAK (noun)


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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