reactor

reactor

English

Etymology

react +‎ -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹiˈæktɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈæktə/

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• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
• Homophone: reacter

Noun

reactor (plural reactors)

1. A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.

   Synonym: reacter

   Hyponym: respondent

2. (chemistry, engineering) A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
3. (nuclear physics) A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
4. (chemistry) A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.

Derived terms

• fast reactor
• nuclear reactor

Translations

person who behaves in response to a suggestion, stimulation or some other influence

Finnish: reagoija

structure used to contain chemical or other reactions

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device which uses atomic energy to produce heat

Albanian: reaktor (sq) m Arabic: مُفَاعِل‎ m (mufāʿil) Armenian: ռեակտոր (hy) (ṙeaktor) Azerbaijani: reaktor Belarusian: рэа́ктар m (reáktar) Bulgarian: реа́ктор (bg) m (reáktor) Catalan: reactor (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 反應堆／反应堆 (zh) (fǎnyìngduī) (Mainland China, Hong Kong), 反應爐／反应炉 (fǎnyìnglú) (Taiwan) Czech: reaktor (cs) m Danish: reaktor c Dutch: reactor (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: reaktor Finnish: reaktori (fi) French: réacteur (fr) Georgian: რეაქტორი (reakṭori) German: Reaktor (de) m, Atomreaktor (de) m, Meiler (de) m, Atommeiler (de) m Hebrew: כּוּר‎ (he) m (kur) Hungarian: reaktor (hu) Indonesian: reaktor (id) Interlingua: reactor Irish: imoibreoir m Italian: reattore nucleare m Japanese: 原子炉 (ja) (げんしろ, genshiro) (nuclear reactor) Kazakh: реактор (reaktor) Korean: 원자로(原子爐) (ko) (wonjaro) (nuclear reactor) Kyrgyz: реактор (reaktor) Latvian: reaktors m Lithuanian: reaktorius m Macedonian: реа́ктор m (reáktor) Norwegian: Bokmål: reaktor m Nynorsk: reaktor m Persian: رآکتور‎ (fa) (reâktor) Polish: reaktor (pl) Portuguese: reator (pt) m Romanian: reactor (ro) n Russian: реа́ктор (ru) m (reáktor) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: рѐактор m Roman: rèaktor (sh) m Slovak: reaktor m Slovene: reaktor m Spanish: reactor (es) m Swedish: reaktor (sv) c Tajik: реактор (reaktor) Turkish: reaktör (tr) Ukrainian: реа́ктор m (reáktor) Uzbek: reaktor (uz) Vietnamese: lò phản ứng Welsh: adweithydd m

chemical substance which responds to another substance

Arabic: مُفَاعِل‎ m (mufāʿil) Bulgarian: реаге́нт m (reagént) Finnish: reaktori (fi) French: réactif (fr) m German: Reagenz (de) n Interlingua: reagente Irish: imoibreoir m Italian: reattivo (it) m, reagente (it) m Kazakh: әрекеткі (äreketkı) Polish: reagent (pl) m Portuguese: reagente (pt) m, reativo (pt) m Russian: реаге́нт (ru) m (reagént), реакти́в (ru) m (reaktív) Swedish: reagent c

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Thai: (please verify) เตาปฏิกรณ์

Anagrams

• Carreto, Cerrato, Creator, acroter, creator

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English reactor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌreːˈɑk.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: re‧ac‧tor

Noun

reactor m (plural reactoren or reactors)

1. atomic reactor
2. chemical reactor

Derived terms

• kernreactor
• reactorvat

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Portuguese

Noun

reactor m (plural reactores)

1. Superseded spelling of reator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French réacteur.

Noun

reactor n (plural reactoare)

1. reactor

Declension

Declension of reactor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) reactor	reactorul	(niște) reactoare	reactoarele
genitive/dative	(unui) reactor	reactorului	(unor) reactoare	reactoarelor
vocative	reactorule		reactoarelor

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reaɡˈtoɾ/ [re.aɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ac‧tor

Noun

reactor m (plural reactores)

1. jet engine
2. rocket engine
3. atomic reactor
4. chemical reactor

Derived terms

• reactor nuclear

Related terms

• reacción

Further reading

• “reactor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014