"meltdown" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: meltdowns [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from melt down. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|melt down}} Deverbal from melt down Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meltdown (countable and uncountable, plural meltdowns)
  1. Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Radioactivity Translations (severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor): اِنْصِهَار نَوَوِيّ (inṣihār nawawiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), ռեակտորի միջուկի հալում (ṙeaktori miǰuki halum) (Armenian), մելտդաուն (meltdaun) (Armenian), 堆芯熔毀 (Chinese Mandarin), 堆芯熔毁 (duīxīn rónghuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), roztavení reaktoru [neuter] (Czech), nedsmeltning [common-gender] (Danish), kernsmelting [feminine] (Dutch), sulaminen (Finnish), reaktoriytimen sulaminen (Finnish), fusion du cœur d’un réacteur nucléaire [feminine] (French), Kernschmelze [feminine] (German), τήξη (tíxi) [feminine] (Greek), नाभिकीय गलाव (nābhikīya galāv) (Hindi), zónaolvadás (Hungarian), fusione del nocciolo [feminine] (Italian), 炉心熔融 (roshin-yōyū) (alt: ろしんようゆう) (Japanese), メルトダウン (merutodaun) (Japanese), 노심 용해 (nosim yonghae) (Korean), ذوبشدن سوخت هستهای (Persian), stopienie rdzenia reaktora jądrowego [neuter] (Polish), derretimento nuclear [masculine] (Portuguese), topire [feminine] (Romanian), разруше́ние и́з-за расплавле́ния (razrušénije íz-za rasplavlénija) [neuter] (Russian), расплавле́ние (rasplavlénije) [neuter] (Russian), мелтда́ун (mɛltdáun) [masculine] (Russian), taljenje jezgre [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), fusión de núcleo [feminine] (Spanish), härdsmälta [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-meltdown-en-noun-idMthUsZ Categories (other): English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English deverbals: 23 34 35 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 33 39 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 34 36 7 Disambiguation of 'severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor': 69 11 17 2
  2. A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown): nedsmeltning [common-gender] (Danish), romahdus (Finnish), Zusammenbruch [masculine] (German), Nervenzusammenbruch [masculine] (German), catástrofe [feminine] (Portuguese), criză [feminine] (Romanian), встря́ска (vstrjáska) [feminine] (Russian), eratično stanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), escándalo [masculine] (Spanish), dilema [masculine] (Spanish), explosión [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-meltdown-en-noun-eiiRahpb Categories (other): English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English deverbals: 23 34 35 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 33 39 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 34 36 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 47 28 6 Disambiguation of 'situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown': 8 80 10 2
  3. (psychology) A response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology, Autism
    Sense id: en-meltdown-en-noun-S5WpdPKh Disambiguation of Autism: 12 31 53 4 Categories (other): English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English deverbals: 23 34 35 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 33 39 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 23 34 36 7 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
  4. (informal) A tantrum or emotional outburst. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable Synonyms (tantrum): tantrum
    Sense id: en-meltdown-en-noun-Mhz6bHAQ Disambiguation of 'tantrum': 3 4 4 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: gypsy meltdown, market meltdown, mutational meltdown, nuclear meltdown, techno-meltdown Related terms: China syndrome

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2001, James Wickham, “Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling”, in The Daily Star",
          "text": "Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.",
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          "text": "Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262"
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          "ref": "2019 August 30, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, “One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown”, in Mother Jones",
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      "code": "fi",
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