"nuclear summer" meaning in English

See nuclear summer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: nuclear summers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nuclear summer (plural nuclear summers)
  1. A period, hypothesized to follow a nuclear winter, in which surface temperatures rise to a dangerous degree because of the release of carbon dioxide and methane from decayed organic matter. Wikipedia link: nuclear summer Categories (topical): Nuclear warfare Translations (warm period): ydinkesä (Finnish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for nuclear summer meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nuclear summers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nuclear summer (plural nuclear summers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nuclear warfare",
          "orig": "en:Nuclear warfare",
          "parents": [
            "War",
            "Weapons",
            "Conflict",
            "Military",
            "Violence",
            "Hunting",
            "Tools",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Society",
            "Human activity",
            "Technology",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period, hypothesized to follow a nuclear winter, in which surface temperatures rise to a dangerous degree because of the release of carbon dioxide and methane from decayed organic matter."
      ],
      "id": "en-nuclear_summer-en-noun-WMm9db7Q",
      "links": [
        [
          "nuclear winter",
          "nuclear winter"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ],
        [
          "carbon dioxide",
          "carbon dioxide"
        ],
        [
          "methane",
          "methane"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "warm period",
          "word": "ydinkesä"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "nuclear summer"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuclear summer"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nuclear summers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nuclear summer (plural nuclear summers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Nuclear warfare"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period, hypothesized to follow a nuclear winter, in which surface temperatures rise to a dangerous degree because of the release of carbon dioxide and methane from decayed organic matter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nuclear winter",
          "nuclear winter"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ],
        [
          "carbon dioxide",
          "carbon dioxide"
        ],
        [
          "methane",
          "methane"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "nuclear summer"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "warm period",
      "word": "ydinkesä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuclear summer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.