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chain reaction

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
On August 16, 2005, Cuban Link released his official debut album "Chain Reaction" independently on his new label, M.O.B. Records. "Chain Reaction" boasts production from producers such as Swizz Beatz, Mr. Porter and others while featured guest artists include ...

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.

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 ...

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.