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noun
A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: experimental physics; nuclear physics; experimental physics; nuclear physics
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History
Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference; presumably fuse + -or.
From fuse + -or.
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