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MAGNETIC BOTTLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetic bottle mean?

• MAGNETIC BOTTLE (noun)
The noun MAGNETIC BOTTLE has 1 sense:

1. container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions

Familiarity information: MAGNETIC BOTTLE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MAGNETIC BOTTLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("magnetic bottle" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Holonyms ("magnetic bottle" is a part of...):

tokamak (a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle)

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