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nuclear fusion

nuclear fusion noun: the combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.

Noun

nuclear fusion (usually uncountable, plural nuclear fusions)

  1. (usually, nuclear physics) The combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.
    • The emergence of this new large-scale lab-based astrophysics was an unanticipated side effect of a much broader, more fraught, and now quite in-the-news scientific journey: the quest for nuclear fusion.2023 January 3, Adam Frank, “The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before”, in The Atlantic

nuclear fusion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

nuclear fusion in Hindi

the combining of nuclei of small atoms to form nuclei of larger ones
नाभिकीय संलयन nābhikīya sanlyan

nuclear fusion in Tamil

அணுச்சேர்க்கை, அணுக்கருப் பிணைவு, அணுப் பிணைவு, அணுக்கரு சேர்க்கை

nuclear fusion in Malayalam

nuclear fusion
ആണവസംയോജനം āṇavasaṁyōjanaṁ, അണുസംയോജനം aṇusaṁyōjanaṁ

nuclear fusion in Tagalog

the combining of nuclei of small atoms to form nuclei of larger ones
sapisan
More languagesFewer languages
nuclear fusion in Arabic
اِنْدِمَاج نَوَوِيّ indimāj nawawiyy

Antonyms of nuclear fusion

Forms of nuclear fusion

pluralnuclear fusions

Questions about nuclear fusion

What does nuclear fusion mean?
Nuclear fusion means the combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.
What is nuclear fusion in Hindi?
Nuclear fusion in Hindi is नाभिकीय संलयन (nābhikīya sanlyan). See Nuclear fusion meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nuclear fusion?
Nuclear fusion is a noun.
What is the plural of nuclear fusion?
The plural of nuclear fusion is nuclear fusions.

Words near nuclear fusion in the dictionary

  1. nuclear forces
  2. nuclear forensics
  3. nuclear fratricide
  4. nuclear fuel
  5. nuclear fuels
  6. nuclear fusion
  7. nuclear fusions
  8. nuclear gamma resonance fluorescence
  9. nuclear halo
  10. nuclear haloes
  11. nuclear halos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuclear fusion (page history and authors); nuclear fusion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അണുസംയോജനം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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