different between dropout vs fallout

English

Alternative forms

• drop-out

Etymology

drop +? out, from the verb phrase.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: drop?out

Noun

dropout (countable and uncountable, plural dropouts)

1. Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course

   The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.

2. Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
4. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
5. A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
6. Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
7. A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

Derived terms

• dropout factory

Translations

English

Etymology

From the verb fall out; fall +? out.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??la?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?l?a?t/

Noun

fallout (countable and uncountable, plural fallouts)

1. The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
2. The particles themselves.

   On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.

3. A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.

   Synonym: blowback

   Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism, title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in [2].

4. (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
5. (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
6. (radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no show or who has cancelled last minute

Synonyms

• (negative side effect): repercussions, blowback

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• rainout
• smokefall

Anagrams

• outfall