TOKAMAK

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 I. (noun) 

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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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