chain reaction

chain reaction

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Noun

chain reaction (plural chain reactions)

1. (physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms.

   The Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction.

2. (figurative) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.
   • 2010, Robert W. Kolb, Lessons from the Financial Crisis‎, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     That is, systemic risk is the risk of a chain reaction of falling interconnected dominos.

Derived terms

• polymerase chain reaction

Translations

type of nuclear reaction

Afrikaans: kettingreaksie Albanian: reaksion zinxhi m Amharic: የሰንሰለት ድርጊት (yäsänsälät dərgit) Arabic: تَفَاعُل متسلسل‎ Armenian: շղթայական ռեակցիա (hy) (šłtʿayakan ṙeakcʿia) Azerbaijani: zəncirvarı reaksiya Basque: kate-erreakzio Belarusian: ланцуговая рэакцыі f (lancuhóvaja reakcyi) Bengali: ধারাবাহিক প্রক্রিয়া (dharabahik prôkriya) Chinese: Mandarin: 鏈式反應／链式反应 (zh) (liànshì fǎnyìng), 鏈反應／链反应 (liànfǎnyìng) Czech: řetězová reakce f Danish: kædereaktion c Dutch: kettingreactie (nl) f Estonian: ahelreaktsioon (et) Faroese: ketureaktión f Finnish: ketjureaktio (fi) French: réaction en chaîne (fr) f Georgian: ჯაჭვური რეაქცია (ǯač̣vuri reakcia) German: Kettenreaktion (de) f Greek: αλυσιδωτή αντίδραση f (alysidotí antídrasi) Hebrew: תְּגוּבַת שַׁרְשֶׁרֶת‎ (he) f (tguvát sharshéret) Hungarian: láncreakció (hu) Irish: imoibriú slabhrúil m Italian: reazione a catena f Japanese: 連鎖反応 (ja) (れんさはんのう, rensa hannō) Kannada: ಸರಣಿ ಕ್ರಿಯೆ (saraṇi kriye), ಸಾಲುಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ (kn) (sālupratikriye), ಸರಣಿಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ (kn) (saraṇipratikriye), ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯಾಶ್ರೇಣಿ (kn) (prakriyāśrēṇi) Korean: 연쇄반응 (yeonswaebaneung) Latvian: ķēdes reakcija f Malay: tindak balas berantai, reaksi berantai Norwegian: Bokmål: kjedereaksjon m Nynorsk: kjedereaksjon m Polish: reakcja łańcuchowa f Portuguese: reação em cadeia f Romanian: reacție în lanț (ro) f Russian: цепна́я реа́кция (ru) f (cepnája reákcija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ла̀нчана реа̀кција f Roman: lànčana reàkcija f Slovak: reťazová reakcia f Slovene: verižna reakcija f Spanish: reacción en cadena f Swedish: kedjereaktion (sv) c Tagalog: patanikalang tambisa Turkish: zincir reaksiyon, zincirleme reaksiyon Ukrainian: ланцюго́ва реа́кція f (lancjuhóva reákcija) Vietnamese: phản ứng dây chuyền

series of events

Chinese: Mandarin: 連鎖反應／连锁反应 (zh) (liánsuǒ fǎnyìng) Czech: řetězová reakce f Danish: kædereaktion c Dutch: kettingreactie (nl) f Faroese: ketureaktión f Finnish: ketjureaktio (fi) French: réaction en chaîne (fr) f Georgian: ჯაჭვური რეაქცია (ǯač̣vuri reakcia) German: Kettenreaktion (de) f Hungarian: láncreakció (hu) Italian: reazione a catena f Japanese: 連鎖反応 (ja) (れんさはんのう, rensa hannō) Malay: tindak balas berantai, reaksi berantai Norwegian: Bokmål: kjedereaksjon m Nynorsk: kjedereaksjon m Polish: reakcja łańcuchowa f Portuguese: reação em cadeia f Russian: цепна́я реа́кция (ru) f (cepnája reákcija) Slovak: reťazová reakcia Slovene: verižna reakcija f Swedish: kedjereaktion (sv) c Turkish: zincirleme tepki Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• chain reaction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia