fallout

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See also Fallout, fall out, and fall-out

English

Etymology

From the verb fall out; fall +‎ out

Noun

fallout (plural fallouts)

1. The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
2. The particles themselves.

   On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.

3. A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.

   Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism, title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in [1].

4. (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
5. (rare) The person who declines such an offer.

Derived terms

Terms derived from fallout

area of militarily significant fallout atmospheric fallout borrower fallout chemical fallout fallout contour fallout pattern fallout prediction fallout risk fallout safe height of burst

fallout shelter fallout winds fallout wind vector plot investor fallout militarily significant fallout nuclear fallout radioactive fallout soot fallout

Synonyms

• (negative side effect): repercussions

Translations

event of airborne particles falling to the ground

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Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: осадки (ru) (osádki) m. pl. Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Urdu: please add this translation if you can

particles that fall to the ground

Czech: spad (cs) m. Finnish: laskeuma (fi) German: Fallout (de) m.

Greek: προσπτώσεις (el) (prosptóseis) f. pl., (radioactivity) ραδιενεργή τέφρα (el) (radienergí téfra) f. Russian: осадки (ru) (osádki) m. pl.

negative side effect

Finnish: sivuvaikutus (fi)

French: retombées f. pl.

declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed

person who declines such an offer

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French: retombées f. pl. (1-3)

See also

• rainout
• smokefall

Anagrams

• outfall