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n. 1 Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping. 2 A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis. 3 (context figuratively English) A tantrum.
WordNet
n. severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping [syn: nuclear meltdown]
a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933"
Wikipedia
Meltdown is the fourth studio album by Ash, which was initially released on 17 May 2004 through Infectious Records. On 8 March 2005 the album was released in the United States. It is a darker and heavier sounding record than Free All Angels.
Meltdown is an annual festival, held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film. Meltdown is held in June at Southbank Centre, the arts complex covering and including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Hayward. Each year the festival chooses an established music artist or act as director of the event and they pick the performers of their choosing. Previous Meltdown directors include: Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Lee Scratch Perry, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, John Peel and Ornette Coleman. The festival has been held annually since 1993, except in 2006 when the Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment. In 2016 Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow, 6 Music DJ, presenter of BBC iPlayer's Music Box with Guy Garvey and latterly solo artist, curates the 23rd Meltdown.
Meltdown may refer to:
Meltdown is the second release and first full-length album by American singer-songwriter Steve Taylor. It followed 1983's I Want to Be a Clone and featured a similar kind of style, involving Christian rock incorporating new wave musical influences, while also being produced by Jonathan David Brown. The album did well, commercially, reaching the No. 10 spot on Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian chart.
It additionally received positive critical reviews from publications such as Billboard, saying that "Taylor has an edge and vitality". The album was listed at No. 18 in the 2001 book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. Like other works by Taylor, the album's songs touch on many socio-political issues; "We Don't Need No Colour Code" denounces Christian organizations that practice racism while "Over My Dead Body" calls for more attention to violations of human rights overseas.
Meltdown, in comics, may refer to:
- A codename for Tabitha Smith, a Marvel character also known as Boom Boom and Boomer
- Meltdown (Image Comics), a series from Image Comics
Meltdown is the third studio album by guitarist Vinnie Moore, released in 1991 through Relativity Records.
"Meltdown" is the sixth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series IV and the twenty-fourth episode in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 21 March 1991. Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. The episode, featuring Wax-Droids of famous historical figures involved in a war of good versus evil, was originally supposed to open the series but was postponed due to the Gulf War conflict.
Meltdown is a two-part comic book mini-series published in December 2006 (issue 1) and January 2007 (issue 2) by Image Comics. Written by David Schwartz and illustrated by Sean Wang.
Meltdown is a 1986 isometric computer game developed by Alligata Software for the Amstrad CPC. There are two English language versions, a 64k version with a little basic speech synthesis and a 128k version featuring much more speech synthesis. A version was also released in French called Le Syndrome.
Meltdown is the second solo album released by John Taylor.
Meltdown is the second album by Quebec hard rock group GrimSkunk released in 1996. The title of the song P.C.P. is an acronym for Problème de Consommation Personnelle meaning personal consumption problem related to drug use and features Uncle Costa and Shantal Arroyo on lead vocals. A video was made for No Sympathy. The songs Lord Ogre and Fat Al's Illness are rerecorded versions from the Fatal Illness days, the latter being a wordplay on the band's early name.
Meltdown is a remix album by Australian rock synthpop band, Icehouse with tracks remixed by Australian electronic musicians and bands including Infusion, sonicanimation and beXta. It was released in October 2002 within Australia by dIVA Records (Icehouse founder Iva Davies' own label) under Warner Music Australia. The single "Lay Your Hands on Me" (Icehouse Vs. Speed Of Light) peaked at #85 on the Australian singles chart. The album was re-released, in 2004 by Rock Up label / Star Records, as Street Cafe or more fully Street Cafe and Other Remixed Hits with a different track order and different cover art (see infobox below right).
Meltdown is a book on the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 by historian Thomas Woods, with a foreword by Rep. Ron Paul. The book was published on February 9, 2009 by Regnery Publishing.
Meltdown is the third album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell (bass guitar) and Charles Hayward (drums). It was recorded live at Robert Wyatt's 2001 Meltdown Festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on June 17, 2001.
"Meltdown" is the third single from Between Here & Lost, the debut studio album from heavy metal band Love and Death. The song (along with " The Abandoning") is to be remixed by Jasen Rauch in preparation for the September 24, 2013 re-release of Between Here & Lost as a "deluxe" edition containing a new song entitled "Empty". The song peaked at No. 14 on US Christ Rock, with a music video of the song released on August 13, 2013.
Meltdown is an extended play (EP) by American rapper Pitbull, released on November 22, 2013 through Mr. 305, Polo Grounds, and RCA Records.
"Meltdown" is a track from the soundtrack album The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the motion picture The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and is by Belgian artist Stromae. The song features additional vocals by New Zealand singer Lorde, the American hip hop artist Pusha T, American rapper Q-Tip and the rock band HAIM. The song is a re-recorded version of "Merci", an instrumental track from Stromae's second studio album Racine Carrée.
"Meltdown" was released on 17 November 2014 and initially has charted in Belgium and France. "Meltdown" is the first track appearing in the album.
Meltdown (also known as American Meltdown) is television film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, which aired on FOX on 6 June 2004. The action-drama-thriller film is about the terrorist take-over of the fictional San Juan Nuclear Plant in southern California.
Usage examples of "meltdown".
Anton Murik had used as his personal cryptonym for Meltdown - Warlock.
All her senses heightened, working toward a fiery meltdown of anticipation.
If he could torment her into a first-class meltdown, she could make him frantic for her.
It was then that the Wisconsin glaciers, all at once, went into their ferocious meltdown, forcing a 350-foot rise in global sea levels amid scenes of unprecedented climatic and geological turmoil.
What better way to symbolize the troubled birth of the new world age of Leo than to depict its harbinger as a rampaging lion, particularly since the Age of Leo coincided with the final ferocious meltdown of the last Ice Age, during which huge numbers of animal species all over the earth were suddenly and violently rendered extinct.
Most of the biological danger of a reactor meltdown comes from alpha radiation emitted by particulate radioisotopes in the air or water.
Our daughter Joanna was consuming our lives, rolling from one meltdown to the other twenty-four hours a day.
Somehow, even now, when her skin had gone blotchy and her hair was falling out, when the chain reaction that was fast approaching meltdown raged in her flesh, she still kept their child safe.
So I see no reason why Meltdown cannot go ahead at twelve noon British Summer Time on Thursday, as planned.
If his suspicions were correct, Meltdown could mean only one terrifying thing.
Time passed slowly, and Bond occupied himself by working on the remaining pieces of the Meltdown puzzle should he not get through, it would be best to have some operational diagram in his head.
Whatever the governments of countries like Britain, the United States, France and Germany had said about never giving in to terrorist blackmail, Meltdown would present them with the gravest dilemma any country had yet faced.
The pieces of the Meltdown puzzle floated around in his head for most of the night.
Senator Daschle, whose anti-Bush rant on the Senate floor had been widely viewed as an unseemly meltdown, would soon be losing his job as majority leader.
Rove if he considered the California speech as bad as the Iowa meltdown ten months later.