Spillover vs Fallout - What's the difference?
spillover | fallout |
That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.
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.
The particles themselves.
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
(rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
As nouns the difference between spillover and fallout
is that spillover is that which overflows; the excess or side effect while fallout is 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.spillover
English
Noun
(en noun)- The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
- The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.
See also
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*fallout
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism , title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in [http://www.jewishworldreview.com].