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Princeton's WordNet
fallout, radioactive dustnoun
the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
side effect, falloutnoun
any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
"a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal"
GCIDE
falloutnoun
the falling to the ground of radioactive particles lifted into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion.
falloutnoun
an incidental or unexpected effect, especially one which is undesirable, consequent to an event or process; ; -- usually used only in the singular; as, the fallout from the disclosure of the Lewinsky tapes made trouble for the President for months after the event; fallout from the stock market crash caused property prices to decline in the New York area.
Wiktionary
falloutnoun
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.
falloutnoun
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.
falloutnoun
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 .
falloutnoun
A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
falloutnoun
The person who declines such an offer.
Etymology: From the verb fall out;
Wikipedia
Fallout
Fallout is the fourth single by Welsh indie rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen. The song was included in their debut studio album, The Balcony. The single was digitally released on 7 July 2014. The single did not contain a B-side. The song was the first single by the band to chart in Belgium, reaching number 92 in the Ultratop chart.
ChatGPT
fallout
Fallout generally refers to the often unintended adverse or harmful effects or side effects resulting from a particular event or situation, causing a range of subsequent problems. In a nuclear context, fallout specifically refers to the radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion and that eventually fall back to the earth's surface.
Wikidata
Fallout
Fallout is a role-playing open world video game produced by Tim Cain, developed and published by Interplay in 1997. The game has a post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic setting, in the aftermath a global nuclear war in the mid-22nd century, featuring an alternate history which deviates some time after World War II, where technology, politics and culture followed a different course. The protagonist of Fallout is an inhabitant of one of the government-contracted fallout shelters known as Vaults. In subsequent Fallout games, he or she is referred to as the "Vault Dweller". The game is considered to be the spiritual successor to the 1988 role-playing video game Wasteland. It is not an official sequel, although it was initially developed as one, because Interplay did not have the rights to Wasteland at that point. It was also intended to use Steve Jackson Games' GURPS system, but that deal fell through due to the excessive amounts of violence and gore included in the game, forcing Black Isle to change the already implemented GURPS system to the internally developed SPECIAL system. Fallout was critically acclaimed and inspired a number of sequels and spin-off games, known collectively as the Fallout series.
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Anagrams for fallout »
outfall
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fallout in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fallout in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of fallout in a Sentence
From Iraq to Syria to Libya to covert operations, when I traveled extensively in those areas like I do, I see a tremendous amount of the fallout from misguided U.S. policies.
Equity markets are moving higher as the dust settles from the political fallout between Russia and Turkey, traders are viewing no reaction from Russia as good news, but many dealers are still keeping an eye on the Kremlin.
My family and my husband's family have a history with fallout from not having vaccines.
I don’t think we have seen the full extent of the fallout at the University of Missouri, violence is coming from Antifa groups on campus. Now they control administrators and shut out competing ideas they disagree with or don’t like.
There has been an amazing fallout, i have never seen anything like it.
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- يسقطArabic
- spadCzech
- Niederschlag, FalloutGerman
- πρόσπτωση, ραδιενεργή τέφρα, προσπτώσειςGreek
- caerSpanish
- افتادنPersian
- laskeuma, sivuvaikutusFinnish
- retombées, répercussionsFrench
- kihullásHungarian
- նստվածք, տեղումներArmenian
- ricadutaItalian
- 落下, 降下, 落下物Japanese
- 낙진Korean
- радиоактивдүү заттардын жаашыKyrgyz
- fall-outDutch
- precipitaçãoPortuguese
- cade afarăRomanian
- выпадение, осадкиRussian
- avslag, nedfallSwedish
- ออกมาเสียThai
- serpintiTurkish
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