scram
- Noun. The emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor, originally specifically by insertion of one or more safety control rods.
- Noun. In a more general sense, an emergency shutdown.
- Verb. Get out of here; go away (frequently imperative).
- Verb. (ambitransitive) To abruptly insert the control rods of a nuclear reactor, usually in case of emergency shutdown.
- Noun. A rapid shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- Noun. (alternative spelling of, SCRAM) .
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