Meltdown vs Evaporation - What's the difference?
meltdown | evaporation |
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
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(figuratively) A tantrum.
The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
(archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor.
As nouns the difference between meltdown and evaporation
is that meltdown is severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping while evaporation is evaporation.meltdown
English
(wikipedia meltdown)Noun
(en noun)- 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]
- 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]
