Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nuclear_energy

1 sense of nuclear energy

Sense 1
atomic energy, nuclear energy -- (the energy released by a nuclear reaction)
       => energy, free energy -- ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms")