meltdown

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

catástrofe

derretimento nuclear

desastre

fusão

ataque de fúria

Sinônimos

nuclear meltdown

breakdown

failure

dissolving

downfall

fusion

melt

melting

ruination

slump

thaw

thawing

flame-out

total failure

ablation

kablooie

crash

debacle

Traduções

Kernschmelze

τήξη

fusione del nocciolo

kernsmelting

fundición

fusion

fusion du cœur d’un réacteur nucléaire

meltdown

escándalo

hecatombe

explosión

fusión de un reactor

fusión de un reactor nuclear

fusión de núcleo

Etimologia (Inglês)

Deverbal from melt down.