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. (idiomatic) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.

   The bombs all exploded in a 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) (šġtʻayakan ṙeakcʻia)
• Azerbaijani: zəncirvarı reaksiya
• Basque: kate-erreakzio
• Belarusian: ланцуговая рэакцыі f (lancuhóvaja reakcyi)
• Bengali: ধারাবাহিক প্রক্রিয়া (dharabahik prokriẏa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鏈式反應／链式反应 (zh) (liànshì fǎnyìng), 链式反应 (zh) (liànshì fǎnyìng), 鏈反應／链反应 (liànfǎnyìng), 链反应 (liànfǎnyìng)

• Czech: řetězová reakce f
• Danish: kædereaktion c
• Dutch: kettingreactie (nl) f
• Estonian: ahelreaktsioon
• 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 f (tguvát sharshéret)
• Hungarian: láncreakció (hu)
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• 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

• Portuguese: reação em cadeia 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
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: phản ứng dây chuyền

series of events

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連鎖反應／连锁反应 (zh) (liánsuǒ fǎnyìng), 连锁反应 (zh) (liánsuǒ fǎnyìng)

• Czech: řetězová reakce f
• Danish: kædereaktion c
• Faroese: ketureaktión f
• Finnish: ketjureaktio (fi)
• French: réaction en chaîne (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯაჭვური რეაქცია (ǯač̣vuri reakcia)
• German: Kettenreaktion (de) f
• Italian: reazione a catena f
• Japanese: 連鎖反応 (ja) (れんさはんのう, rensa hannō)
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• Malay: tindak balas berantai, reaksi berantai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjedereaksjon m

  Nynorsk: kjedereaksjon m

• Portuguese: reação em cadeia f
• Russian: цепна́я реа́кция (ru) f (cepnája reákcija)
• Slovak: reťazová reakcia
• Slovene: verižna reakcija f
• Swedish: kedjereaktion (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Chain reaction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chain reaction (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia