How to pronounce“meltdown”in English
IPA/ˈmɛltˌdaʊn/
Syllablesmel·tdown
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noun
An act or process of melting.
noun
An act or process of melting.
“Thus began by far the gravest crisis in the troubled, 32-year history of commercial atomic power. A catastrophe had occurred over the weekend at the Chernobyl plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, where a reactor meltdown and explosion caused untold death and suffering and raised the prospect of long-term health and environmental damage on a far greater scale than anything yet unleashed by peaceful nuclear use.”