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Definition: Fallout |
FalloutNoun1. The radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | 1)polluting particles which come down again towards the ground;2)quantity of substances naturally laid by area unit in a definite time. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The deposition of air-borne radioactive contamination on the earth. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | The spread and deposition of radioactive substances on earth and in the atmosphere following atomic reactor accidents, thermonuclear bomb explosions or due to natural causes from ionizing radiation; Also written fall-out. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fallout is a 1997 computer role-playing game and an unofficial sequel to Wasteland, but it could not use that title as Electronic Arts held the rights to it. There were two role-playing titles in the series and one squad-based spinoff: Fallout and Fallout II, both RPGs, and Fallout Tactics, respectively.The background story of Fallout involves a 'what-if' scenario where the United States tries to devise fusion power resulting in a hegemonic United States that has less reliance on petroleum. However, this is not achieved until 2077, shortly after an oil drilling conflict off the Pacific Coast pits the United States against China. It ends with a nuclear exchange resulting in the post-apocalyptic world the game takes place in.
The protagonist of the first game is a descendant of those that managed to find solace in government contracted fallout shelters known as Vaults. The year the game takes place is 2161, somewhere in Northern California in Vault 13.The second game takes place 80 years after the first.It tells the story of the original hero's descendant and his quest to save his tribe from starvation by finding an ancient environmental restoration machine.
Fallout draws much from 50s Pulp magazine science fiction and superhero comic books. For example, computers have no transistors and use vacuum tubes; energy weapons exist and resemble those used by Flash Gordon. The Vault Dweller's main style of dress is a blue skin tight jumpsuit with a yellow line running down the center of the chest and along the belt area.
Fallout also draws minor influences from other sources. One of the initial armors available in the game is the one sleeved leather jacket, which bears a resemblance to the jacket worn by Max in Road Warrior. Also, the armor featured on the cover of the game is Power Armor, which is mentioned under the Mecha entry.
The song that plays during the Introductory scene is entitled 'Maybe' and is sung by a band called The Inkspots.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fallout."
Synonym: FalloutSynonym: radioactive dust (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fallout |
| English words defined with "fallout": fallout shelter ♦ strontium 90. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fallout": Accidents, Radiation ♦ FIREWORKS DISPLAY SPECIALIST ♦ HURA CREPITANS ♦ radioactive fallout, Radioactive Pollutants ♦ setter-off, setter-up. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fallout" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (fallout). |
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Screenplays | Of course, because of all the fallout from the atomic wars! (Back to the Future; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Lyrics | The birds flew off with a fallout shelter ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean) | |
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Health | Examples include cancer caused by nuclear fallout from atomic explosions and cancers caused by excessive exposure to radioactive chemicals. (references) | |
Economic History | Sierra Leone | The future of the MRU depends on the ability of its members to deal with the fallout from these internal and regional problems. (references) |
Belarus | About 70% of the nuclear fallout from the plant landed on Belarusian territory, and about 25% of the land is considered uninhabitable. (references) | |
Georgia | However, as a result of the fallout from the Russian and Asian economic crises, Georgia has been unable to meet IMF conditions recently. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | In the late 1990's, Chile's economy fell victim to global fallout from a series of financial crises in various emerging market countries. (references) |
Ireland | Consumer confidence may be hit by continuing high inflation and fallout from the slump in the U.S. high-tech sector, but midway through 2001 there are few signs of this. (references) | |
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| "Fallout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.77% of the time. "Fallout" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.77% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fallout": fallout shelter ♦ Radioactive Fallout. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fallout | 1,040 |
fallout 2 | 850 |
fallout tactic | 417 |
fallout 2 walk through | 298 |
fallout 2 cheat | 175 |
nuclear fallout | 166 |
3 fallout | 107 |
fallout tactic cheat | 102 |
fallout walk through | 98 |
fallout cheat | 84 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fallout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سقوط (chute, descent, downfall, drop, falling, incidence, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, spilling, tumble), الدقائق الناتجة من الإنفجار النووي. (various references) | |
Chinese | "射性微尘. (various references) | |
Czech | radioaktivní spad. (various references) | |
Danish | nedslag (splash), nedfald. (various references) | |
Dutch | radioactieve neerslag (radioactive fallout), neerslag (coating, deposit, fall, precipitate, precipitation, rainfall). (various references) | |
Finnish | radioaktiivinen laskeuma (radioactive fallout, radioactive fall-out), laskeuma (fall-out, sedimentation rate). (various references) | |
French | taux de chute, retombées (fall out, radioactive fallout), retombée. (various references) | |
German | fallout (fall out, radioactive fall out), radioaktiver niederschlag (fall out, radioactive fall out, radioactive fallout), niederschlag (deposit, dregs, electro, electrotype, fall, precipitate, precipitation, rainfall, sediment). (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιενεργός εναπόθεση από πυρηνική έκρηξη, πίπτοντα σωματίδια ρύπανσης. (various references) | |
Italian | fall-out, pioggia radioattiva. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 死の灰 (atomic dust, lethal radioactive fallout), "射性降下物 (radioactive fallout). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しのはい (atomic dust, lethal radioactive fallout), ほうしゃせい"うかぶつ (radioactive fallout). (various references) | |
Korean | 다툼. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nedfall, konsekvenser. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alloutfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trompa de falópio (oviduct), precipitação radioactiva (radioactive fallout), partículas radioativas. (various references) | |
Russian | выпадение (prolapse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | radioaktivne padavine (fall out), opadanje (decline, decrease, decrement, downtrend, ebb, fall out, falling, loss, subsidence, wane, waning), ispadanje (fall out, prolapse). (various references) | |
Spanish | precipitación (acceleration, deposition, fall, haste, précipitation, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, rainfall, rashness), polvillo radiactivo, lluvia radiactiva (fall out, radioactive fall out). (various references) | |
Swedish | radioaktivt nedfall (radioactive fallout). (various references) | |
Thai | ผลที่ออกมา, ผลร้ายที่ตามมา, ฝุ่นกัมมันตรังสีหลังนิวเคลียร์ระเบิ". (various references) | |
Turkish | yan ürün (by product, fall out, spin-off, waste product), nükleer atık (fall out, nuclear waste), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, heap, junk, litter, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), atık (contaminant, contamination, faecal matter, faeces, fall out, refuse, rejectamenta, rejection, throw out, waste, waste product). (various references) | |
Ukranian | опади (precipitation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fallout": fallouts. (additional references) | |
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"Fallout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballout, failout, Fallot, fallous, fallut, falous, Falqui, falut, Fileout, Filliou, fillot, Fillou, Folliguet, Malloum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fallout" (pronounced fô"lou't) |
| 3 | -l ou' t | bailout, pullout, rollout, sellout. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outfall. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: afoul, allot, aloft, atoll, fault, float, flota, flout. | |
-3 letters: alto, auto, fall, flat, foal, foul, full, loaf, loft, lota, lout, olla, tall, tofu, tola, toll, tolu, tufa. | |
-4 letters: aft, all, alt, fat, flu, fou, lat, lot, oaf, oat, oft, out, tao, tau, uta. | |
-5 letters: al, at, fa, la, lo, of, ta, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fallouts, loathful, outfalls. | |
+3 letters: boastfully, flocculant, flocculate, multifocal. | |
+4 letters: conflictual, flocculants, flocculated, flocculates, flocculator. | |
+5 letters: flagitiously, flocculating, flocculation, flocculators, functionally, slumpflation, unifoliolate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 6C 6F 75 74 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-.. .-.. --- ..- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l l o u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 006C 006F 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40677878818786 |
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