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Plural of reactor

regular plural

The plural of reactor is reactors.

Forms of reactor

Singularreactor /ɹiˈæktɚ/
Pluralreactors
Countablecountable

Reactors in a sentence

  • Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment.1983 December 31, Michael Bronski, “A Sharply Focused Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 17
  • Here, humans are seen as active participants in all dimensions of their lives, throughout their life course, and not simply passive reactors to the world around them.2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 7
  • Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are powered by onboard nuclear reactors.“Nuclear Submarines and Aircraft Carriers”, in US EPA, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2026. From the entry nuclear submarine
  • As soon as the earthquake struck, the reactors "scrammed"—shut down automatically—as they were supposed to.2012, Daniel Yergin, “The Urgency of Fuel Choice”, in The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, revised edition…. From the entry scram
  • Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry atompunk

Meaning of reactor

  1. noun A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.
  2. noun A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
  3. noun A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.

Full definition of reactor

Questions about the plural of reactor

What is the plural of reactor?
The plural of reactor is reactors.
Is reactor countable?
Reactor is a countable noun.

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