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chain reaction
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Interstate 35 was closed following a chain reaction crash that involved 93 vehicles. ▪ The atom splits, starting a nuclear chain reaction . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bombs in the magazine detonate in chain reaction in a split ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions to take place. Chain reaction or The Chain reaction may also refer to:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms. 2 (context idiomatic English) A series of events, each one causing the next.
Usage examples of chain reaction.
He told me there would be this big event, this precipitating event, which would set off a chain reaction that would set America back on course.
Containment fields ruptured, matter met antimatter, and a deadly chain reaction tore through every warhead aboard the targeted ships.
He knew that all you had to do was stimulate atoms to get a chain reaction going.
It's sort of a chain reaction, with me on the end and nobody to pass it along to.
I should be able to get a high positive 'k' factor on the chain reaction-if it works at all.
It was all the human race needed -- a chance to use what could turn into a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Something had attacked the shop, powerful enough to set off a chain reaction in the protec.