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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping;
[syn: meltdown, nuclear meltdown]

2. a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown;
- Example: "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

meltdown n 1: severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping [syn: meltdown, 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"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

network meltdown meltdown (By analogy with catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor) An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, of a network. Network meltdown usually results from illegal or misrouted packets (see Chernobyl packet) and typically lasts only a short time. It may also be caused by a hardware fault. It is the network equivalent of thrashing. [Jargon File] (2004-02-17)