Usually means: Emergency shutdown of nuclear reactor.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrams: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrams: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scrams: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scrams: Vocabulary.com
  5. scrams: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. SCRAMs, scrams: Wiktionary
  7. scrams: Dictionary.com
  8. scrams: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scrams: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrams: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SCRAM)

verb:  (intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.
noun:  (MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.
verb:  (transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
noun:  (also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
noun:  The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
verb:  (transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
verb:  (transitive, US, mining, archaic) To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.
noun:  (Derbyshire, Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
noun:  (US, mining, archaic) A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.
verb:  Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.
verb:  To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of scram [(MLE, slang) A gun, firearm.]
verb:  Alternative letter-case form of scram [(intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away.]
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