Usually means: Severe overheating of nuclear reactor.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. meltdown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. meltdown: Merriam-Webster
  3. meltdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. meltdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. meltdown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. meltdown: Vocabulary.com
  7. Meltdown, meltdown: Wordnik
  8. meltdown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. meltdown: Wiktionary
  10. meltdown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. meltdown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. meltdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. meltdown: Dictionary.com
  14. meltdown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. meltdown: Rhymezone
  17. meltdown: FreeDictionary.org
  18. meltdown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. meltdown: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. meltdown: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. meltdown: Netlingo
  3. meltdown: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Meltdown (disambiguation), meltdown: Encyclopedia

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meltdown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
noun:  A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
noun:  (informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst.
noun:  (psychology) 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.

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