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–noun

1.	the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., esp. such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout). Compare rainout.

2.	the particles themselves. Compare rainout.

3.	an unexpected or incidental effect, outcome, or product: the psychological fallout of being obese.

4.	effects; results: emotional fallout from a divorce.

Also, fall-out.

[Origin: 1945–50; n. use of v. phrase fall out

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n.

1. The slow descent of minute particles of debris in the atmosphere following an explosion, especially the descent of radioactive debris after a nuclear explosion.
2. The particles that descend in this fashion.
An incidental result or side effect: "Other social trends also have psychiatric fallout, and the people who suffer can't afford treatment" (Martha Farnsworth Riche).

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fallout
noun
1.	the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
2.	any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal" [syn: side effect]

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ˈfallout noun

radioactive dust from a nuclear explosion etc

Arabic:	سَقْطٌ إشْعاعي
Chinese (Simplified):	放射性尘埃
Chinese (Traditional):	放射性塵埃
Czech:	radioaktivní odpad
Danish:	radioaktivt nedfald
Dutch:	fallout
Estonian:	radioaktiivne tolm
Finnish:	laskeuma
French:	retombées radioactives
German:	radioaktiver Niederschlag, der Fallout
Greek:	κατάλοιπα πυρηνικής έκρηξης
Hungarian:	radioaktív csapadék
Icelandic:	ofanfall
Indonesian:	debu radioaktif
Italian:	ricaduta radioattiva

Japanese:	死の灰
Korean:	낙진, 방사능진, 죽음의 재
Latvian:	radioaktīvie nokrišņi
Lithuanian:	radioaktyviosios dulkės
Norwegian:	radioaktivt nedfall
Polish:	opad radioaktywny
Portuguese (Brazil):	precipitação radioativa
Portuguese (Portugal):	pó radioactivo
Romanian:	reziduuri radioactive
Russian:	радиоактивные осадки
Slovak:	rádioaktívny spad
Slovenian:	radioaktivne padavine
Spanish:	lluvia radioactiva
Swedish:	radioaktivt nedfall
Turkish:	serpinti, radyasyon