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Hailstorm vs Meltdown - What's the difference?

hailstorm | meltdown |

As nouns the difference between hailstorm and meltdown

is that hailstorm is while meltdown is severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.

hailstorm

English

Alternative forms

* hail storm

Noun

(en noun)

    • meltdown

    English

    (wikipedia meltdown)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
    • Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. [http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html]
  • A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
  • * 2001 , James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling'' (in ''The Daily Star )
    • Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.
    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. [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262]
  • (figuratively) A tantrum.

    • Derived terms

    * nuclear meltdown * market meltdown * techno-meltdown

    See also

    * China syndrome