[syn: side effect, fallout]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
fallout \fallout\ n.
1. the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after
a nuclear explosion.
Syn: radioactive dust, radioactive fallout.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. the falling to the ground of radioactive particles lifted
into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion.
[PJC]
3. an incidental or unexpected effect, especially one which
is undesirable, consequent to an event or process;; --
usually used only in the singular; as, the fallout from
the disclosure of the Lewinsky tapes made trouble for the
President for months after the event; fallout from the
stock market crash caused property prices to decline in
the New York area.
[PJC]
4. (Med.) one selected from a group by some criterion. [cant]
[PJC]
Corrective action was taken in 97 of the 418
--fallouts
from 3,787 patients at risk. --H. Gill
Cryer et al.
(Journal of
Trauma,
Injury,
Infection, and
Critical Care.
Vol 41, no. 3,
1996).
[PJC]
5. one who fails to maintain the same pace as and lags behind
a group of which s/he is a member. [cant]
[PJC]
The executive officer's group noted all --fallouts
by name and policed them into a group to complete
the run at a slower pace. --Lt. Col.
William C.
David
(Preparing a
Battalion for
Combat:
Physical
Fitness and
Mental
Toughness.
Army
University
After Next -
Virtual
Research
Library).
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fallout
n 1: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a
nuclear explosion [syn: fallout, radioactive dust]
2: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to
contain the fallout from the accounting scandal" [syn: side
effect, fallout]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "fallout":
A-blast, A-bomb shelter, H-blast, Mach front, activity,
air pollution, airborne radioactivity, artificial radioactivity,
atom blast, attritus, blast wave, bran, contamination, cosmic dust,
crumb, crumble, curiage, decontamination, dust, dust ball,
dust cloud, efflorescence, fallout shelter, farina, filings,
fission particles, flash burn, flour, grits, groats, ground zero,
half-life, hydrogen blast, kittens, lint, meal, mushroom cloud,
natural radioactivity, nuclear radiation, powder, pussies,
radiant energy, radiation, radioactive dust, radioactive radiation,
radioactivity, radiocarbon dating, radiolucency, radiopacity,
radiosensibility, radiosensitivity, raspings, saturation point,
sawdust, smut, soot, specific activity