Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subcritical mass

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English

Syllables: sub-crit-i-cal -mass
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mass of fissile material that is insufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

Inflected Forms

subcritical masses (plural)

Antonyms

supercritical mass

Questions

What does subcritical mass mean?: A mass of fissile material that is insufficient to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

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