nuclear fallout (English, noun)
expansion: nuclear fallout (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear fallouts)
Senses:
glosses: Residual radioactive material in the upper atmosphere which settles down to Earth over a protracted period; typically ash which has been propelled upwards by a nuclear explosion or disaster, sometimes mixed with rain or snow.
tags: uncountable
glosses: An event in which this occurs, generally perceived as an ecological disaster due to the distribution of irradiated material over a much larger area than the zone directly affected by the original event.
tags: countable
Forms:
form: nuclear fallouts
tags: plural