Meltdown

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  meltdown
       n 1: severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor
            resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
            [syn: {nuclear meltdown}]
       2: a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is
          little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American


          banking collapse in March 1933"

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  meltdown
       
          {network meltdown}