fusor

English

Etymology 1

Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference; presumably fuse +‎ -or.

Noun

fusor (plural fusors)

1. (astronomy) A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.

Translations

celestial body that, through self-gravity, can perform nuclear fusion in its core

• Finnish: fuusori

See also

• planemo
• fusor (astronomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From fuse +‎ -or.

Noun

fusor (plural fusors)

1. (experimental physics, nuclear physics) An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.

Hypernyms

• fusion reactor
• nuclear fusion reactor
• nuclear reactor
• reactor

 

Hyponyms

• Farnsworth fusor
• Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor

 

Coordinate terms

• inertial confinement fusion
• laser inertial confinement fusion
• magnetic confinement fusion
• stellarator
• tokamak

 

Translations

a type of nuclear fusion reactor

See also

• fuser

 

Anagrams

• Rufos, fours, furos, roufs, uORFs