fusor
English
Etymology 1
Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference; presumably fuse + -or.
Noun
fusor (plural fusors)
- (astronomy) A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
Translations
celestial body that, through self-gravity, can perform nuclear fusion in its core
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See also
- planemo
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Etymology 2
fuse + -or
Noun
fusor (plural fusors)
- (experimental physics, nuclear physics) An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.
Hypernyms
- fusion reactor
- nuclear fusion reactor
- nuclear reactor
- reactor
Hyponyms
- Farnsworth fusor
- Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor
Coordinate terms
- inertial confinement fusion
- laser inertial confinement fusion
- magnetic confinement fusion
- stellarator
- tokamak
Translations
a type of nuclear fusion reactor
See also
- fuser
Anagrams
- Rufos, fours, furos, roufs, uORFs