meltdown

Significado (Inglés)

1. (countable, uncountable) Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
2. (countable, uncountable) A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
3. (countable, informal, uncountable) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
4. (countable, uncountable) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.

Sinónimos

nuclear meltdown

breakdown

failure

dissolving

downfall

fusion

melt

melting

ruination

slump

thaw

thawing

flame-out

total failure

ablation

kablooie

crash

debacle

Traducións

Kernschmelze

fundición

kernsmelting

fusione del nocciolo

derretimento nuclear

τήξη

catástrofe

meltdown

desastre

fusão

ataque de fúria

escándalo

hecatombe

explosión

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Deverbal from melt down.