Definitions for fallout

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fallout fall·out

Spelling: [fawl-out]

IPA: /ˈfɔlˌaʊt/

Fallout is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in fallout (afllotu).

Definitions for fallout

noun

1. the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout) Compare rainout.
2. the particles themselves. Compare rainout.
3. an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product:
4. effects; results:

Origin of fallout

First recorded in 1945-50; noun use of verb phrase fall out

Examples for fallout

And the fallout from so many atom bombs simply could not be risked.

In some places, a boat would provide some fallout protection.

But the fallout from the Panetta book will be significant over time.

“Matt was genuinely hurt by all the Ann Curry fallout,” says the network news insider.

The fallout of this loss of trust has had an enormous impact on the outbreak.

More recently, the fallout from the Arab Spring across the region has given the two powers many more sandboxes in which to play.

After Test Mike, the implications of fallout obviously were global.

People dying of disease and worried about dying from radiation and fallout.

Conservative evangelicalism is losing millennials in gobs, and the World Vision fallout is sure to only accelerate the fallout.

Remember that fallout particles can be seen, but the rays they give off cannot be seen.