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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

ताप नाभिकीय

Pronunciation / Transliteration: taap naabhikiye

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Thermonuclear/ˌθɜːr.moʊˈnuː.klɪ.ər/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"सूर्य में ऊर्जा का मुख्य स्रोत ताप नाभिकीय संलयन है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or denoting nuclear fusion reactions that occur only at very high temperatures.

    "The sun and other stars derive their energy from thermonuclear reactions."
  2. 2

    Relating to nuclear weapons that use fusion to produce an explosion far more powerful than that of a fission bomb.

    "The arms race escalated significantly with the invention of the thermonuclear bomb."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek 'thermos' meaning hot, combined with the English 'nuclear', which originates from the Latin 'nucleus' meaning kernel or little nut. Coined in the mid-20th century during the development of advanced physics to describe nuclear fusion reactions requiring extremely high temperatures.

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