HyperDic: tokamak

English > 1 sense of the word tokamak:
NOUNartifacttokamaka doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research
English > tokamak: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningA doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle.
Partsmagnetic bottlecontainer consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions
BroaderchamberA natural or artificial enclosed space
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