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MELTDOWN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown

Example:

there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("meltdown" is a kind of...):

calamity; cataclysm; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

Synonyms:

meltdown; nuclear meltdown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("meltdown" is a kind of...):

overheating (excessive heating)

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