Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

control rod

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English

Syllables: con-trol rod
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction.

Example Sentences

"Holonym: nuclear reactor"
"A faulty control rod design was a key factor in causing the 1986 steam explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl."

Inflected Forms

control rods (plural)

Questions

What does control rod mean?: Any of a number of steel tubes, containing boron or other neutron absorber, that are inserted into the core of a nuclear reactor in order to control its rate of reaction.

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