Usually means: Water with heavier hydrogen isotopes.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. heavy water: Merriam-Webster
  2. heavy water: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heavy water: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heavy water: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heavy water: Vocabulary.com
  6. heavy-water: Wordnik
  7. heavy-water, heavy water: Wiktionary
  8. heavy water: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. heavy water: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. heavy water: Dictionary.com
  11. Heavy Water, Heavy-water, Heavy water: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. heavy water: Rhymezone
  13. heavy water: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. heavy water: FreeDictionary.org
  15. heavy water: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. heavy water: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heavy water: Energy Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heavy-water, Heavy water (D2O), heavy water: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. heavy water: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heavy-water, Heavy water (D2O), heavy water: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. Heavy water (D2O): NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heavy Water: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heavy water)

noun:  (inorganic chemistry) Water containing deuterium instead of normal hydrogen (protium); used as a moderator in nuclear reactors.

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