Meltdown vs Spectre - What's the difference?
meltdown | spectre |
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.
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As nouns the difference between meltdown and spectre
is that meltdown is severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping while spectre is an alternative spelling of lang=en.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]
Derived terms
* nuclear meltdown * market meltdown * techno-meltdownSee also
* China syndromespectre
English
Noun
(en noun)- The spectre is a ghost of a decapitated young man.
- To this extenuated spectre , perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner