Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - fallout
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Fallout
fallout
1. Fallout is the radiation that affects a particular place or area after a nuclear explosion has taken place. They were exposed to radioactive fallout during nuclear weapons tests. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you refer to the fallout from something that has happened, you mean the unpleasant consequences that follow it. Grundy lost his job in the fallout from the incident. N-UNCOUNT: oft N from n
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noun Date: 1949 1. a. the often radioactive particles stirred up by or resulting from a nuclear explosion and descending through the atmosphere; also other polluting particles (as volcanic ash) descending likewise b. descent (as of ~) through the atmosphere 2. a secondary and often lingering effect, result, or set of consequences have to take a position and accept the political ~ — Andy Logan ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. 1 radioactive debris caused by a nuclear explosion or accident. 2 the adverse side-effects of a situation etc. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1) выпадение (напр. радиоактивных осадков) 2) осадки (напр. радиоактивные) 3) сопутствующий (побочный) результат - sand fallout - stratospheric fallout ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
4.
~ n 1 the dangerous radioactive dust which is left in the air after a nuclear (3) explosion and which slowly falls to earth (There can be little lasting protection against the effects of radioactive fall out.) 2 the results or effects of a particular event, especially when they are unexpected (The political fallout of the Iran-Contra affair cost him his job.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
{n.} 1. Result of nuclear explosion; harmful radioactive particles. * /Some experts consider fallout as dangerous as the bomb itself./ 2. Undesirable aftereffects in general. * /As a fallout of Watergate, many people lost their faith in the government./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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