Tokamak

Quick meaning: Tokamak is a noun meaning (nuclear physics) A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research in which plasma is magnetically confined.

Meaning

(nuclear physics) A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research in which plasma is magnetically confined.

Example Sentences

Slowly, the solenoid—all one thousand tons of it—will be carried to the tokamak and lowered into the center of the vacuum chamber.

Of magnetic fusion experiments, those in Tokamaks are closest to achieving the combination of confinement conditions needed for a reactor.

A Tokamak engineering test reactor (TETR) will be an important component of any national or international program to achieve viable Tokamak fusion power reactors.

Studies of electrodeless discharges in a strong longitudinal magnetic field, carried out on the stellarator and the "Tokamak", have shown that in such systems the plasma becomes unstable for currents appreciably les than the critical current of Shafranov-Kruskal.

Word Forms

• tokamaks
• tokomak

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tokomak, spheromak, stellarator, fluxtube, magnetoplasma, plasmoid.

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