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  • noun physics A magnetic device used to confine a plasma, especially one used to sustain nuclear fusion

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Examples

  • Then they take him to see the stellarator, which looks like a contemporary sculpture.

    Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations Steven Mufson 2010

  • Then they take him to see the stellarator, which looks like a contemporary sculpture.

    Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations Steven Mufson 2010

  • In a stellarator, the helical lines of force are produced by a series of coils which may themselves be helical in shape.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • Another stellarator, TJ-II, is under construction in Madrid, Spain.

    Nuclear fusion power 2009

  • According to our records, you are drawing royalties from three patented improvements in the stellarator which were discovered at times when you were employed by us -- or, rather, by one of our associative corporations -- in an advisory capacity.

    Damned If You Don't Randall Garrett 1957

  • While tokamak, stellarator or laser fusion devices are quite common in the world and they producing a number of publications every year.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Forget CERN's little science gizmo - the supersexy science machine title belongs to Japan's, the world's largest superconducting stellarator* that employs a heliotron magnetic field.

    Neatorama 2008

  • Forget CERN's little science gizmo - the supersexy science machine title belongs to Japan's, the world's largest superconducting stellarator* that employs a heliotron magnetic field.

    Neatorama 2008

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  • Not only is it called a stellarator, the one they are about to inject hydrogen into* has the supremely unbelievable name of the Wendelstein X-7 stellarator.

    * Jack Lemmon: 'Inject the hydrogen, Max! Mwah-ha-ha!'

    February 3, 2016