Tokamak Definition

tôkə-măk, tŏkə-
noun
A reactor designed to control nuclear fusion in a plasma of ions and electrons inside a doughnut-shaped, or toroidal, magnetic bottle.
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Other Word Forms of Tokamak

Noun

Singular:
tokamak
Plural:
tokamaks

Origin of Tokamak

  • From Russian токамак (tokamak), an acronym of тороидальная камера в магнитных катушках (toroidalʹnaja kamera v magnitnyx katuÅ¡kax, “toroidal chamber with magnetic coils").

    From Wiktionary

  • Russian from to(roidal'naya) kam(era s) ak(sial'nym magnitnym polem) toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tokamak Sentence Examples

  • In particular, the work will employ spectral diagnostics developed for solar physics research to understand what is going on in the tokamak plasmas.

  • In a conventional tokamak the plasma is held in a toroidal configuration, rather like a car tire or donut.

  • To reduce the effect of these error fields, a set of error field correction coils was installed on the mast tokamak.

  • The liquid wall can conceivably be applied to future magnetic fusion reactors, whether a spherical torus, a tokamak, or another design.

  • Trapped particles The outside (larger major radius portion) of a tokamak plasma has a lower magnetic field than the inside.

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