fusor

Meanings

1. 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.

1. An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.

Etymology

Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference; presumably fuse + -or.